Uninstalling Office 365

[akosibentot]

I just got my new HP EliteBook 840 G5 and i just installed several software, but i have some questions.

1.) I want to downgrade the Office 365 to Office 2010 so if i uninstall office 365 will it impact other software that are are already installed?

2.) Is there a way to create a "Restore Point" similar to Dell Laptops where you can go back at a certain restore date.

3.) Can someone explain what is OneDrive for windows? Is this free of service? what is the capacity of OneDrive? How does it work.

I apologize, this is the first time im using HP laptop. I used to have DELL Inspiron 1521 but it gave up on me LOL.

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@akosibentot 

Let's get to your questions in order ...

1) MS Office -- are you sure your Office 365 subscription is not just a trial?Asking because unless you paid extra and specially ordered Office 365 with it, the one preinstalled is a trial version.  And in that case, it is going to expire anyway, and can not be activated -- so I would leave it alone.  You can install Office 2010 if you have a license for that.

2) Restore Point -- this is not the "time machine" that many folks think -- as it does not allow you to take the PC back in time to a former state.  When you do a Windows Update, it creates a Restore Point in which it saves off the Windows system files being updated or removed.  When you then later run System Restore, all it does is find the saved files and overwrite the current system files using them.  It does not save any user settings or data.

3) One Drive is MS's Cloud storage product.  They provide you a small amount for free with new Win10 PCs, but be aware, they have been reducing that amount over time. I personally do not use Cloud Storage as I find local offline storage to be cheaper and much more reliable.

[akosibentot]

1.) The Office 365 is a trial version, and it is asking me to purchase a subscription, which i'm not planning to because i have Office 2010, but in my years of experience having a laptop i tend to uninstall trial version product to free up some space, i'm just concerned if there's a known issue uninstalling office 365 trial version. Note that this will expire 1/1/2020.

2.) Got it!

3.) I figured it out the cloud storage, i get 5 gig free. but i decided to use external hard drives.