Hi,  probably not much help

I have done the same with Windows XP and SP2, and have had no problem with any version of openoffice, so I guess AFAIK there are no services that need shutting down, certainly on this computer here,

Using

AMD Duron 1600
40gb hdd
700 mb memory
Windows XP + SP2 + various updates from windows update
Mozilla (latest build) firefox, thunderbird
Openoffice.org beta2



Paul


Travis Pittman 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!
                
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