On Saturday 30 July 2005 08:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had no problem installing OpenOffice on my own computer (Windows
> XP). However, I helped my son download the program on his computer
> (Windows 9) It did not unzip and execute the file. It opened with the
> question "choose which program to open this file" and gave a list of
> completely un-related programs to open it. The only logical choice
> was Microsoft Word. That doesn't work and the program was never
> installed. I deleted it and downloaded it again but now it continues
> to try and open in Word. How can I install the program on his
> computer? Could he be missing an unzip utility? If so how can I
> install one for him? All I needed to do on my computer was double
> click on the zip file and it installed beautifully. Thanks for your
> help!!
> Fred Winterling
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
You are right. Windows XP contains an extraction program, but Win
98 does not.
Dan
Here is a reply from another member of the mailing list:
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You are missing an unzip utility.
The most populair ones are Winzip and Winrar , but a good free one is
7-zip
(http://www.7-zip.org/)
Just open the file with 7-zip and extract it to a temporarily folder and
execute setup.exe , that should work. Opening with Microsoft Word is
useless.
Xav.
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