Office 10 Partition

[dtway]

Just got a new Lenovo ThinkPad Edge (14) which, like all recent notebooks, comes with Office 10 startup pre-loaded. If I activate it, will the partition go away, freeing up whatever is left after the program loads? If I don't decide to activate, is there a way to get rid of the partition without downloading (buying?) a partition manger?

Thanks,

Duane

 

[SIW2]

Please post a screenshot of Disk Management window.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-how-post-screenshot-seven-forums.html

 

[dtway]

Why a screenshot?

As I said in my first post, I have a new notebook (Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14) that has a Microsoft Office 10 partition on the hard drive. Every time I try to use my MS Office 2007 (because my students--I'm a Ph.D. Professor on the Internet-- don't have Office 10 and I don't want to upgrade until the major bugs are fixed--been computing since 1966) I get Office 10 instead. What I want to do now is get rid of Office 10 starter edition and free up the disk space it takes.

Instead of a screen shot, just imagine a hard drive with Win 7, a Win 7 recovery partition, and Office 10 starter edition.

All I want is a computer with Win 7 and the Win7 recovery partition. Let's not make this harder than it has to be.

Duane

 

[Bill2]

I think you're talking about the Q: drive that Office 2010 Starter creates. The Q: drive is a pointer to a virtual filesystem that Office Starter accesses, it does not consume any extra space on your system.

 

[mikedl]

Every time I try to use my MS Office 2007 (because my students--I'm a Ph.D. Professor on the Internet-- don't have Office 10 and I don't want to upgrade until the major bugs are fixed--been computing since 1966)

Hi, Duane.

There are no "major" bugs in Office 2010. Perhaps a bit of a learning curve as related to some of the ways one is used to doing things in Office 2007 but, other than that, Office 2010 is much more versatile.

I can understand if you have students "stuck" on Office 2007 but, at current student pricing, it would be best to move up.

Let's not make this harder than it has to be.

I hope I didn't. If I did, I apologize.