On 2010-10-28 8:00 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> Suddenly a pop up appeared that 'OpenOffice.org 3.1 is available >> for updating. I clicked and installed the same. But it is not >> opening my files though it does the recovery. Unfortunately I am >> not able to use the old version i.e. 2.3 as this has been deleted >> by the new version. I am not able to open up any of my files and >> folders.
> First I'd uninstall OpenOffice. The problem is not a bad install of Openoffice, the problem is caused by the file associations not being properly set up - which is caused by the fact that the developers, in all their wisdom, decided to remove the ability to associate Microsoft Office files with Openoffice in the GUI installer. What the OP needs to do is create a shortcut to the installer with /msoreg=1 as an argument. Yeah, good luck with that. Ok, so just re-associate the files one by one using the right-click > 'Open with' dance - oh, right, that won't work for templates... > Reboot. > > Reboot. (Yep, twice. This is Windows, once is never enough) This is generally only necessary for software that installs drivers - like, for example, Antivirus software. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
