Hi Rod
I have bought and run Registry Mechanic ver 4 every day, so I think my registry is fairly tidy. What do you think if I go to C:\Program Files\ and delete all the OOo subfolders except for the one containing 1.1.3 (which I think is in OOo 1.1 which I think was the version I upgraded). I could ten run Registry Mechanic to tidy up any orphan links in the Registry.
What do you think?
Kind regards, James Elliott
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Engelsman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:56 PM
Subject: [users] Re: Removing old versions of Ooo.? Bug.?
James Elliott wrote:I have an Windows XP SP2 computer and went into "Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs" to remove unwanted ones. I note that I have many versions of OOo installed, from OOo 1.0 through OOo 1.1.3 and decided to uninstall the older versions which were each taking up 60 - 140 MB disk space.
When I went to remove version 1.0, I received a warning that I was about to uninstall OOo 1.1.3, so I backed out of there. I usually do a fresh install into a new folder, but last time I decided to do the upgrade to keep my Australian dictionary this is probably the reason for the version number / file name confusion.
So I went on to remove 1.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, and received the same warning with each of them (that I was about to remove version 1.1.3)
OOo version 1.1.2 was the only one that I could remove as Add?Remove Programs accurately identified this one as .1.2 and not 1.1.3
How can I get rid of the unwanted older versions without accidentally removing version 1.1.3? Why does this happen? (for self-educational purposes). What is the recommended way to install OOo - Upgrade or Fresh Install?
Many thanks, James Elliott
Look to see if the old versions are actually still on your machine. I've run into that before -- having "ghost" entries in the Add/Remove list. The two biggest offenders are OOo and, for some reason, Adobe products. I don't know whether it's something to do with leftover registry entries or whether there is a separate database for that thing or what. If it's registry-related something like RegClean should fix it up.
Rod
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