Hi :) My deepest apologise for that! >From where you are now, to recover, you might only need to run the 3.6.5 >installer again and choose the repair option. That should fix it. This link >is to the 3.6.5 English (US) version http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=win-x86&lang=en-US&version=3.6.5
If that doesn't work and you really do need to uninstall either version 3.6.5 first then either of these links should be able to help http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Uninstall-or-change-a-program http://gizmodo.com/5138189/win-7-tip-where-the-hell-is-addremove-programs When i am actually on a Windows system i am usually somewhat scared to go to microsoft.com even at work and i'm certain the system is properly licensed and i can rech the key easily if i need to re-enter it. On people's home machines i am never quite sure if the site is going to throw a curved-ball at me. The other address just seems rude so normally i wouldn't click it but it seemed fine. If/when i recommend installing to a usb stick or other portable device then it's using the "Portable Apps" version. NOT the regular download. Here is the link for the portable apps version http://www.libreoffice.org/download/portable/ I probably don't make it clear enough though so i can understand why people might have missed that. Apparently the portable apps version can even be installed to Cloud systems so that you can access LibreOffice on any machine that lets you access your Cloud. I've not tried that though. One other problem on Miss Keating's system is that keeping OpenOffice on your system might cause confusion for your machine. NeoOffice, Lotus Symphony, Go-oo, OpenOffice and LibreOffice all have the same core code and make the same calls to components that have the same names so it can all be a tad confusing for a system to have more than 1 version of any of those installed. That's why some smart people have written the guide for installing LibreOffice in parallel https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Although it only specifically talks about 2 versions of LibreOffice the same is often true when one of the versions is one of the other forks. Hopefully one day all mention of soffice will be replaced by libreoffice or something. I just hope they don't go for the name libo because that could cause some confusion for people familiar with unix-based systems. Good luck with sorting the mess out! Please start a new thread about it and let us know how it goes! Apols and regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Miss Keating <[email protected]> >To: edo1 <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013, 5:40 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3 & 4 on same machine > >On 2/24/2013 6:37 PM, edo1 wrote: >> I'm currently running LO ver 3 on Vista x64. Before I commit to ver 4 I'd >> like to run both versions for a while. Will this work if I load ver 4 in a >> separate Program Files folder? >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LO-3-4-on-same-machine-tp4039849.html >> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >You may wish to take warning from my recent experience. I had LO3.5 happily >operational on a Win7 system, but wanted to try 4.0. I downloaded the files to >a USB stick, my j:drive, and installed the programme there. I seem to remember >Tom Davies suggesting that procedure to some other user. It worked just fine >for 4.0, but the installation of 4.0 destroyed3.5 back on the c: drive. I >disconnected the USB stick, which of course then left me with no working >version of LO, and tried to load 3.6.5, only to be told that a "newer version" >had been detected, which must be removed to permit installation of 3.6.5. > >That is of course absurd since there is no LO at all installed on the machine >as long as the USB stick is disconnected. There are remnants, such as 7 levels >of subdirectories, all empty, under a LO3.5 subdirectory in programs(x86), and >several short-cut icons whose "properties" all show them as inoperative. > >I don't know how to remove a program which doesn't exist, so until I can >straighten this business out I am left with only OO, or LO4.0 running from the >stick. Perhaps I have to invoke a "restore point"? > >By my lights, it's a very unsavoury practice to have an installer destroy >existing installations without (a) warning you that that's what it's about to >do, and, (b) asking your permission, but that's what happened to me. May you >have better luck, and if you succeed, you might tell us how you did it. > > >trj > > > > > > >. > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >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 > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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
