Harold Fuchs wrote: > I installed the new portable LO > (http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable) on a USB stick. > When I try to run it, it complains that there is another copy running. It > seems that this is because OpenOffice's (non-portable) Quickstarter is > running on the machine. Of course, OOo's Quickstarter is running for > multiple users who happen to be logged on to the machine (Win XP Pro) so, > although I can kill mine, I can't kill the others.
I don't know much about multiple user logins, but the behaviour you describe is obviously undesirable. Just as a test, you could try to open Task Manager (Ctrl+ Shift + Esc) and kill all the LO/OOo processes. I don't know the name of the quickstarter process, but the "main" process(es) is/are usually "soffice.bin" and/or "soffice.exe". There should be a tick-box at the bottom "Show processes from all users"; can you see the other user's quickstarter if that is ticked? > Is it right that a *portable* version should be prevented from running by a > mere office application (not anti virus or lock-down software or parental > control or anything similar) installed on the machine? Is it right that a > *portable* program should be prevented from running by some process owned by > another *non-admin* user? Is it right that LO is interfered with by OOo? Or > is at least one of these a bug? I may be mistaken but as far as I know, LO and OOo are not expected to run at the same time (so I don't think it is a bug). But if they are both installed on the same computer, they should both work (though not at the same time). Same would apply to the portable version(s). > Why should I not be able to run LO and OOo at the same time on the same > machine? Anyone care to comment? Regards Stephan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
