On 01/02/2008, Stuart M Bowersox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After downloading for 6 hours and 33 minutes you turned off your feed > with 54 seconds remaining. How can I download your OpenOffice when you > turn yourself off? I have Windows Vista Home Premium so it's not the > fault of my computer.
There could be any number of reasons. The fact that you run Vista does *not* mean it's not the fault of your machine. In fact, Windows is regarded as the least reliable of all the popular Operating Systems. It could also have been your ISP or your phone line or the Telco or even OpenOffice.org's web server. If you have a slow internet connection and know in advance (from the size of the file) that a download is going to take a long time it is recommended that you use a Download Manager or buy the software on CD. Scroll down the Download page to find a link to CD suppliers and also to download via P2P like BitTorrent. Note that none of the CD suppliers on the download page is either recommended or guaranteed by OpenOffice.org. Any deal is between you and the vendor. In addition, modern browsers like Firefox have re-start mechanisms built in to overcome exactly the type of problem you complain of. I don't know if IE has such a thing but my guess is that it does. Alternatively OpenOffice is often distriibuted free on the CDs/DVDs that come with computer magazines. Note that none of the CD suppliers on the download page is either recommended or guaranteed by OpenOffice.org. Any deal is between you and the vendor. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
