Charles Marcus wrote: >> It looks as if you have a strange mix of access rights and registry >> settings that completely screwed up the associations. > > Hi Mathias, > > Yes, I had actually realized this after posting, and intended to correct > myself once I had managed to fix it - but I still haven't. > > I did in fact try with a new user before posting, but it still didn't work. > > Anyway, it appears you are correct, it is the registry settings that are > broken, most likely a perms issue. I ran CCleaner, and it shows some OOo > related registry settings as broken, but when I try to fix them, while > it says that they were fixed, re-running CCleaner shows they are still > screwed up. > > I didn't have time to pursue it further, but my next step is to check > and see if I can manually fix the permissions. If I can fix them and it > fixes the problem, then the OOo File Associations Manager would be able > to check for and fix them too, as long as the user is running it with > Admin rights - and it could always check and see if it was as the first > step.
When you install OOo on Windows you are usually doing this for all users. Then the setup application registers the file associations for all users. The file association manager in OOo will not be able to access these settings! Instead of this it will try to set something for the current user. This will rather screw up things than fix them. A file association manager in OOo could make sense as part of the setup as then it could be run with admin rights. In fact the existing "repair" functionality of the setup should do exactly that, of course some other things also what might be unwanted. 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]
