uninstall unused Microsoft Office 365 programs to save space

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I have a new Asus tablet running windows 10 and I want to uninstall parts of it like Access, OneNote, Publisher, that I will NEVER use on this device. I have only 32GB of harddrive and with windows updates getting more and more I will have to trash my little computer within a month :(

This is a duplicate of several existing posts already. Including this one: https://superuser.com/questions/988002/office-2016-how-to-remove-individual-apps — Appleoddity, Sep 18 '17 at 16:31
Possible duplicate of Office 2016 - How to remove individual apps? — , Sep 18 '17 at 19:09
Not a duplicate, I believe: Office 365 is different from traditional local MS Office, since 365 is web-based. — DrMoishe Pippik, Sep 19 '17 at 01:56
@DrMoishePippik If it were web based, it wouldn't be taking up any space on the device, would it? — Michael Frank, Sep 19 '17 at 02:16
Not true: there's a client-side and a server-side portion. Note the rather involved uninstallation below for the client-side portion! — DrMoishe Pippik, Sep 19 '17 at 02:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 03 '19 at 21:52

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I don't think there is any way to uninstall individual parts of Office365. Which is really stupid and annoying, but there it is.

answered Jan 03 '19 at 21:52

aybiss

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '17 at 02:31

First, the easy way: There is a Microsoft FixIt tool to uninstall MS Office 365. Download tool from this link and run it.

Second, to satisfy the do-it-yourself crowd... well, it's a bit long:

Uninstall the main application as any other installed program:

Press the Windows key and in the edit box type prog.
Select Add or remove programs.
Select Office suite and select Uninstall.
To free up more space, you can remove the installer applications:
- Open an elevated command prompt by pressing Windows, typing cmd, and pressing the CtrlShiftEnter simultaneously. Then type the following three commands, and keep that CMD prompt open for later use:

schtasks.exe /delete /tn "\Microsoft\Office\Office 15 Subscription Heartbeat"

schtasks.exe /delete /tn "\Microsoft\Office\Office Automatic Update"

schtasks.exe /delete /tn "\Microsoft\Office\Office Subscription Maintenance"

Now open Task Manager by pressing CtrlShiftEsc simultaneously and kill any of the following processes on the Details tab that are running:
- officeclicktorun.exe
- appvshnotify.exe
- firstrun.exe
- setup*.exe
- In the elevated CMD dialog, type:

sc delete Clicktorunsvc

Open Windows Explorer by pressing WindowsE and delete any of the following, if present:
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15 folder
- C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\ClickToRun folder
- C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Office\FFPackageLocker file

You can also delete Registry keys and Start Menu shortcuts, though that would not save much space.

It does seem that MS made uninstallation obnoxious... they'd rather users buy into their software.

uninstall unused Microsoft Office 365 programs to save space

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