Dave, It's just not worth the hassle, but thanks for all your help. I appreciate all your efforts and suggestions. Thanks for all your time. Steve --- Dave Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > - -------- Original Message -------- > From: gmd01a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed 28 Nov 2007 09:59:05 EST > > > Hi, I reinstalled the WinXP version WITH the JRE > from the website. > > Are you saying that you downloaded and reinstalled > the OOo package? > Unless you removed/uninstalled the previous > installation, the installer > program would detect the previous installation and > only offer to > "Repair" or "Uninstall". You have other corruption > issues here, which > may or may not be directly related to OOo, so just > reinstalling is > probably not going to resolve things like corrupted > configuration or > Windows Registry entries. > > > It did the exact same thing, and as you said, it > asked to recover a > > file on loadup. It did just kick me to the desktop > without warning. > > When I went to Wizards then Letters it did it > again, after this > > installation. That is with the JRE supposedly. I > checked the folders > > and there seems to be plenty of Java files, etc... > there. I have Java > > 6 update 2 and 3 indicated in my Add/delete > programs. So I had Java > > installed last time. But the icons don't show when > I load the Writer. > > It seems to be the Wizards section, the buttons > on the toolbars seem > > to work, and the other pulldown menus, although I > have not checked > > all of them. The FAX wizard kicked me also. Web > Page kicked me too. > > So some of the Wizards work, some don't. > > When I click to Draw from START menu, it went into > Writer. When I did > > finally get in to DRAW, when I resize a picture > and click on the > > picture, I get kicked also. > > So this is with Java installed, and the JRE > version. > > So like I said, unreliable. AT LEAST FOR ME. > > As I I said before, it may or may not be an OOo > issue, but whatever the > cause, it is NOT a commonly reported problem. > Therefore I would not > consider "unreliable" to be the appropriate > terminology. Anyway, enough > of the semantics, let's see if we can get OOo > working "reliably" ;) for > you, in the same way as it does for most of us other > users. > > > Any Suggestions??? > > Steve > > I would suggest the following steps. > > 1. Close OOo including the "Quickstarter" in the > system tray. > > 2. Delete/Recycle Bin/Remove the following > directory/folder: > C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Application > Data\OpenOffice.org2 > Where <user_name> is your Windows user log-in name. > (Could be "Steve", > "Owner" or something like that) > > 3. Reboot Windows, open OOo Writer, go through the > initial start-up > routine and see if your problems have been resolved. > > If not, go back and do steps 1 and 2 again. Then the > following: > > 4. Check the "md5sum" for the OOo installer package > you downloaded. > The "md5sum" and a link to "Instructions for using > md5sums" can be found > here: > http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/md5sums.html > There is probably nothing wrong with the package you > have, but it is > always best to check. If the "md5sum" does fail, you > have a package > which has been corrupted in the download process. > > 5. Go to the Windows "Control Panel -> Add & Remove > Programs" and > uninstall OOo. For the time being, don't remove or > change any Java > updates you have. > > 6. Reboot Windows. May be unnecessary, but with > Microsoft it's the > standard way of doing things. > > 7. Run the OOo installer package. > > 8. Open OOo Writer, go through the initial start-up > routine and see if > your problems have been resolved. > > If you are still having problems at this point I > would suspect either a > Java configuration or Windows Registry corruption > issue that OOo cannot > resolve. In which case I would try: > a) Uninstalling all Java updates and reinstalling > just the latest one. > b) Running a Registry cleaning program. > > Hope this helps. > > Dave > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHTe4+7asJm/pW/p8RAvudAKCCDoE6vtSyHy56ARmdZEb3UGFTRwCfaT0k > UmNmgWQqW1L7bXOF4sL089w= > =nzRx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
