Thanks, CPHennessy, for your help. Unfortunately, I don't have time 
to try this elimination process at the moment. Fortunately, 
OpenOffice seems to remove itself cleanly, so I'll just install Calc 
when I need it and remove everything when I'm done.

I am fairly sure there are installation programs that use a TEMP 
folder and remove unnecessary files and folders when an installation 
is complete. Maybe your programmers could work on such an 
installation program for OpenOffice. I can't be the only one 
discouraged by having so much disk space occupied by repair/restore 
files. A re-install from a CD over an existing installation should 
retain things like my toolbar customization the way installing a 
newer version of Firefox leaves my settings in place.

Anyway, thanks again for your help,

Wayne Tuttle

> > Since I have a CD for emergencies, why leave everything on my hard
> > disk after the installation? Can this be avoided?
> 
> Possibly, however there is no documented way of doing this. You can
> obviously randomly move files to another folder and keep track of what
> works and what does not. After you have a stable installation then you
> list could be quite interesting to others.
> 


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