Alberto Muller wrote:
I wish to thank all those who have offered help in solving my problem.
Unfortunately it wasn't the only problem I had with OO 3.0 on Windows
XP SP2. I was focused on the freezing problem and didn't give a lot of
attention to some bizarre behavior of OO. Any way, the freezing going
on (always on the 6th line of text) I decided a radical intervention.
I uninstalled OO, downloaded anew OO 3.0 and installed it. The
installation went smoothly, as usual and there was no freezing
anymore. But the other problems are still here. I explain : usually, I
was always able to open files, *.odt, *.doc, *.pps and so on just
double clicking on the relevant icon. Well, it isn't possible anymore
; it starts well, I can visualize the empty page and the green bar at
the bottom saying "import of document" in French and then....back to
the desktop. Nothing else happens with the exception of a message
concerning the recovering of the file (it never works). To open a
document I must go into the writer or calc and open from there. With
Powerpoint it's even worse. It won't open no way what I do and I get
the following error message :
Runtime error ! Program :
C:\ProgramFiles\openOffice.org\program\soffice.bin
This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more
information.
After that, OO usually won't work anymore and I have to restart the
computer. Any idea about what happens ? Thanks in advance.
A.Muller
If the files open OK from within OOo, there may be a problem with what
Windows is using for the file association. What happens if you
right-click on the file icon and Open With (browsing to the appropriate
executable, such as the 3.0 swriter.exe? If that works, you should be
able to get back to normal by doing that and selecting to always use
this program (once for each filetype of interest).
If you do get tangled up, and would rather not restart the computer, you
can use the Task Manager to end any soffice.bin processes that are
running; that should let OOo start normally. To bring up the Task
Manager, use Ctrl-Alt-Del, then choose the Processes tab.
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