john martindale wrote:
I am afraid Open Office has given me so many problems that I wish to uninstall
it completely.So far I have managed to remove the word processing and spread
sheet elements but I cannot remove the Open Office start.htm which seems to be
glued to my Firefox browser and always comes up as the front page when I try to
do a search on the web using Firefox.
I have uninstalled Firefox and then installed a fresh version but Open Office
still appears as the front page when I try to do a search.
Regards, John Martindale
In all of the following, I'm assuming that you got the actual
OpenOffice.org program by downloading from www.openoffice.org (note --
there are unfortunately other similarly-named websites that are scams or
otherwise unreliable).
I have no idea how you managed to get where you are, but -- first things
first. If you haven't made so many manual changes that it won't work
any more, you can try doing a normal uninstall in whatever form your
operating system requires. For example, in Windows systems you need to
turn off the Quickstarter (if it's in your taskbar), then use the
Add/Remove Programs capability. If you can't do that, your best bet is
to reinstall -- partway through that, it will give you options to repair
or remove OOo, and if Remove doesn't work, try Repair and then either go
through installation again and use Remove, or use the OS uninstall
process described above.
There is no "Open Office start.htm" on my system (Vista Home Premium,
OOo 3.1.1, and I use Firefox and Thunderbird), nor is there normally any
specific connection between Firefox and OOo. Maybe you created a custom
home page, or somehow identified that page as your search engine? Check
your Firefox installation under Tools > Options and see if there's
anything there about OOo. If this doesn't give you a solution, you'll
need to tell us anything you can about where that file is and how you
got it.
Now, about all those "many problems" -- I can't see any other
communications from you about them, but chances are that if you'd asked,
we'd have been glad to help you resolve them. Care to fill us in now?
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