Charles Marcus wrote: > This is very frustrating, and just illustrates how badly [the windows > version of] OOo needs to have a file associations manager built in - I > really don't see why this should be so hard, especially with all of the > 'OOo has converted all of my MSO files to OOo' complaints (yes, it is > their own fault, but beside the point). I'm not sure that this would solve your problem. Such utility would more or less do the same that you obviously already tried. In fact deinstalling OOo should clear all settings OOo might have made on installation. A built-in manager wouldn't do anything else. So if you went through the whole deinstallation/installation cycle already and that didn't solve the problem I doubt that such manager would be of help. Though it could be useful in other cases, I agree.
It looks as if you have a strange mix of access rights and registry settings that completely screwed up the associations. To find out what your problem is you could first create a new system user and check whether the settings are OK for him. In case it is correct then the settings of the former user have gone haywire. In this case you must have played around with these user settings. OOo does not touch them at all if you didn't install for "single user only". If the associations are damaged also for the newly created user then obviously the settings for "all users" are screwed up. If this can't be fixed by deinstalling and reinstalling OOo for all users I don't have a clue what might be broken. In this case you need to clean up your registry manually. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
