It's never a good idea diving through the registry when there is a frontend for it, even if it's badly done. The link I gave you to alter the default choice with windows control panel is not optimal, but I think less hazardous.
-- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2011/2/2 Luuk <[email protected]> > > Because after looking into this problem, i had the same problem on my > Windows7 computer, thought well it should be easy to solve by > uninstalling/installing LO.... But that did not work > > So i dived into REGEDIT ..... (of course obeying the rules Microsoft has > for this) > > After a lot of .....time i did find a key which is the cause of this > problem. > > It can be show on the commandline when doing: > REG EXPORT > > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.ott\UserChoice > ott.reg > > When you get an error like this: > "ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value." > you should not have this problem > > The file "ott.reg" is a backup of the piece we are going to delete: > > Easiest way to delete this key was via REGEDIT > (other option gave "ERROR: Error accessing the registry." > > Start REGEDIT > Find the key where HKCU is HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Whith "UserChoice" selected, press the Delete button, and confirm deletion. > Close REGEDIT > > double-clicking on an .ott-file should now open a new document based on > that > template. > > > ----- > Windows7 / LibreOffice 3.3 330m19(Build:6) > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Windows-bug-Opening-OTT-does-not-create-new-document-tp2396899p2406508.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > [email protected]<users%[email protected]> > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
