[Frank4d]

My 13 year-old son (who has way too much free time) installed a pirated copy of Office Enterprise 2007 on one of my PCs last night.

The PC has a legal copy of Office Standard Edition 2003 before last night. If I un-install the pirated Office Enterprise 2007... will Office 2003 work again? Or is it hopelessly hosed (and I should re-install)?

[dr20]

Wouldn't a system restore work? First uninstall Office 2007 then do a restore. You might still have to reinstall Office Standard Edition 2003 to repair any damaged files but at least your system won't be hosed.

[new tech guy]

I do not see why it would not work frank, and if your son is messing with your software, put him in a limited account so he cannot mess with the pc. Just uninstall 07 then reboot and load 03 again and all should be fine.

[Frank4d]

No restore points are available prior to the install so I guess I will uninstall both Office 2003 and 2007, remove all traces, and then reinstall Office 2003.

My son knows almost as much as I do about how Windows works (I taught him well) so a limited account isn't an option. I may ban him from using the computer at all though...

[Frank4d]

I uninstalled Office 2007 and tried to repair Office 2003. It complained that it was trashed beyond repair, so I uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2003. Will have a talk with my son when he gets home.