Travis Pittman wrote:
I fixed the problem by turning on all imbedded Microsoft Services at
Start-up through msconfig.
I don't know which of them is responsible for allowing both
openoffice.org web pages, nor which one is needed to permit IE
functionality along with an installed OO Suite. Strangest thing I have
ever seen. Nonetheless, by turning on all services again, all is well.
Over time I'll eliminate services slowly to figure out which one is the
responsible culprit - and I guess I will just have to leave that Service
turned on. Thanks.
Travis Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This has to be the strangest result I have had in 15 years of using the
Internet.
I really wanted to install OO, and noticed for several consecutive hours
that the web site seemed down. Finally, I decided this didn't seem
right, so I checked openoffice.org from a different machine. The
openoffice.org web site opened right away.
I went back to the original machine - with the same result. That
particular machine will not load up openoffice.org, nor will it load any
sub pages of that particular domain. I want to stress that it will open
up any other web page on Earth except this one!
But it got stranger... I went ahead and downloaded JRE 1.5 and
OpenOffice beta 2 on the "good" machine and burned them to CD. I
transfered the CD to the machine in question, and installed both
programs.
And now Internet Explorer won't load ANY page from the Web. I confirmed
that the problem is isolated to this particular machine by taking its
physical connection over to the machine from which I am writing to you
now.
I would really like to keep OO, but I can't if it kills Internet
Explorer functionality. Can anyone help?
Here are the ONLY things I can think of as possible factors:
(1) I recently re-installed Windows XP Home SP2 (and updated it) on the
machine, and I chose not to put any Microsoft software back onto it
except for that which is packaged within the XP install CD.
(2) I have turned off many start-up services, but have explicitly kept
turned on any having to do with the Internet. With this modification, I
could still load any Web page -- except for openoffice.org .
(3) Is there any service which must be turned on as a start-up service
in Windows XP for OO to work?
Thank you very much! I can't fathom why this is happening. I appreciate
any help!
I try avoiding Windows if I can help it but any machine that I have ever
installed OOo on has never ever caused this type of problem. I will
agree with Micheael that it sounds like you have been hit with some
nasty application about the same time. It is happening to people around
work here over the last couple of weeks.
--
Robin Laing
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