Help Uninstalling Powerpoint Viewer 2007

Morganoid said:

So, i have been having trouble uninstalling and updating Windows Powerpoint viewer 2007.

FIrst off, my computer has been stuck on 2 updates for office 2007 for the past couple months I have tried manual installation and that didn't work either. The two updates are KB982312 and KB981715.

When I try and uninstall office 2007 related software, The uninstaller fails and I get a message (see attachment)

Along with a few other issues (such as not being able to install photoshop cs5) this had led me to believe that I have a corrupted registry or corrupted registry permissions. I have tried numerous things but am at a loss at this point.

If anyone has any suggestions or has encountered this problem before, I would be very grateful for input.

Suspect this permissions problem can be solved by installing the updates as admin, the same with software installs.

Running as admin makes no difference.

Any other suggestions?

See if this helps:
How to manually uninstall the 2007 Office system if you cannot uninstall it by using the "Add or Remove Programs" feature

Thank you for you reply, I tried the steps suggested in that link, but got stuck on step 6. because of the registry issue mentioned in my OP.

Ok, so my repair install resulted in a failure message. Looks like it might be time for a wipe and re-install of windows. Thanks for your help guys.

Issue is RESOLVED!!!

After a little more digging i found a tutorial on how to edit the permissions on the offending keys (i was doing everything except the "owner" tab bits)

link is here for anyone else with this problem:

How to resolve “Unable to open Sub key” Error when installing an MSI package? | Ctrl+F5