2009/8/13 Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> > Does anybody here know what the OOo installer/uninstaller is finding that > makes it think there's an open instance of OOo running? Ray Hawes ( > [email protected], an unsubscribed user) reports that OOo is not > in his Startup folder, not in the Start menu, not in Program Files, no > Quickstarter in task bar, and there is no soffice.bin process running, but > when he tries to install or uninstall OOo thinks it has to be closed to > proceed. OOo is still in the Windows "uninstall programs" list from an > earlier installation of 3.1 from the www.openoffice.org website. I have no > idea what, other than an soffice.bin process, would be used to determine > that OOo is running. Help, please! >
On my Win XP Pro system, according to Task Manager, there are *two* "soffice" processes running: soffice.bin *and* soffice.exe This is when, as far as I am concerned, *only* the Quickstarter is running. Has your respondent tried the [free] Windows Installer Cleanup Utility at <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301>? HTH. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
