Today boredom and curiousity compelled me to try out Office 2010. It’s really slick. I like it a lot.
However, for my own reasons I found it desirable to uninstall. I did this and was troubled to receive the following error message:
This product installation has been corrupted. Please reinstall from original CD or source.
That’s paraphrased from memory. A quick Google search revealed a very simply solution from technet user Vikas Narula:
The Problem is a missing file in the installation folder of office 2010. Office 2010 has an Setup Controller directory and uses the directory to check the installed components. please check the directory “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\Groove.en-us\”. if you have no “Setup.xml” file there please copy the file from the “Groove.en-us” directory of the source files to this directory and test the uninstallation again.
I followed this advice and the uninstaller worked as expected. If you don’t have the file, you can download it here: setup.xml
#1 by Andres Palma at November 21st, 2009
Thank you! Had I found your website before, it would have save me a lot of unnecessary headaches and worries! Now the Technical Preview has been completely removed from my computer
#2 by ASHISH RANJAN at February 6th, 2010
THANX SIR……THANK YOU ONCE AGINE BECAUSE I THINK THAT I NEVER B UNINSTALL IT FINALLY I THINK THAT THE LAST OPTION IS FORMATING BUT AS I SEE THE SOLUTION GIVEN BY U I TRY AND IT DONE SUCCESFULLY TNKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX …..