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January 15th, 2008, 11:25 AM
#1
Open Office v M$ Office?
I have noticed some strange behaviour on this machine since the last "patch Tuesday".
I have Open Office 2.3 as my default and MS Office 97 lurking around somewhere.
Since patch Tuesday I have been getting regular warnings from one of my security applications that the default associations for .doc .rtf and .xls extensions has been changed from Open Office to M$ Office. Naturally I deny this change, but something keeps trying.
Incidentally, the access paths are genuine.
Any ideas folks?
Last edited by nihil; January 15th, 2008 at 01:15 PM.
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January 15th, 2008, 12:21 PM
#2
I had the other fault, where open office was trying to set itself as default 'opener'
used CrapCleaner tools to see the startup list, and deleted the open office entries, as I use th eopen office as and when, but I use MS Office 2003, because that is what I support, and that is what I need to be available.
maybe check your startup list, as it maybe that M$ added a tweak to their office apps
so now I'm in my SIXTIES FFS
WTAF, how did that happen, so no more alterations to the sig, it will remain as is now
Beware of Geeks bearing GIF's
come and waste the day :P at The Taz Zone
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January 15th, 2008, 01:22 PM
#3
Hi foxy~
I have checked the startup list, but the only entry is for Open Office. MS Office has no icon, and doesn't even get into the programs list. I have to go manually into the program files folder to open it. Like I said it is Office 97 and I only have it for support purposes, as quite a few people still use it
By the way, the OS is Windows 2000SP4
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January 15th, 2008, 03:24 PM
#4
POSSIBLE SOLUTION?
I think that I have found the problem.
The tool that was warning me that something was trying to change my file associations is "WinPatrol" from Bill P Studios. It is a product I have used for at least 8 years.
http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html
It works with Windows (including Vista). There is a free version and a paid for one, but I have only used the free edition (yeah, I am cheap like that )
If you visit the site you will see a screenshot of the toolbar. I opened the "file types" section and found that .rtf files were associated with MS Wordpad. I don't know how that might have happened as I certainly didn't do it.
The other two files were associated with Open Office.
Couldn't find where to change it in O-O, so I just deleted all O-O and reinstalled the latest version (2.3.1) which I had downloaded a while back and been meaning to do.
At the prompt, I associated the file types with O-O. WinPatrol then warned me that something was trying to change the file association for .rtf files, so I gave it the OK.
I have no idea how these conflicting instructions could have come about, but everything seems to be fine now.
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January 17th, 2008, 01:32 PM
#5
I have no idea how these conflicting instructions could have come about,
hmmmmmm
lets think about that shall we
so now I'm in my SIXTIES FFS
WTAF, how did that happen, so no more alterations to the sig, it will remain as is now
Beware of Geeks bearing GIF's
come and waste the day :P at The Taz Zone
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January 17th, 2008, 06:46 PM
#6
I forgot to mention it, but these warnings were coming up regularly at 10~12 minute intervals. Almost as if there was some background process running trying to synchronise things.
I looked in Process Manager, but didn't see anything obvious
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