Mike Traum wrote:

> OK, that methodology makes sense. But, the problem is is that Oo
> 1.1.4  (and I would assume previous versions) installation does not
> give you the choice to install for the system or for your user and
> will always install it for your user. Oo 1.9 does give your this
> choice and defaults to system. So, I think many people will be
> experiencing this problem. (I'm testing against Windows XP Pro and
> installing both 1.1 and 1.9 under the same user, which has admin
> rights).

If you install OOo1.x with -net it should install for system, not for
user. Or does my memory fool me here?!

The installation with "-net" is the recommended default installation for
OOo1.x.

> BTW, why is that exception thrown? It seems to me that even if it's
> finding the 1.1 installation, it should work. Does Oo 1.1 not support
> the Bootstrap? Is the Bootstrap not backward compatible? If it's
> either of these, shouldn't the Bootstrap search HKEY_CURRENT_USER and
> if it can't find a compatible version, search HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE?

OOo1.x does not support the new bootstrap mechanism, so it fails.

Ciao,
Mathias

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Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead
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