open office not downloading fully

virgin_moneysaver

new laptop with windows 7 - trying to download open office - it gets right to the end when its trying to reconfigure some of the microsoft stuff but it freezes & I have to force a log off - any ideas??

MadTechie

Need a bit more details.. at what part does it freeze ?
maybe try uninstalling OO then rebooting then run ccleaner then install OO

*OO = open office

jayme1

don't just log off give it a full restart, by shutting down waiting a few seconds and turning on.

bengalknights

Try disabling any antivirus/security programs during install as it could be that they are checking the file and causing the freeze.

Painkiller

Do you mean downloading or installing? When the file is downloading it shouldn't be reconfiguring any microsoft stuff.

virgin_moneysaver

well, would you believe it - I thought I'd attempt it once more so i could give an accurate point at which the installation was failing & the damned thing did it 1st time - thanx to all who took the time to reply

Toxteth_OGrady

I was going to suggest http://www.libreoffice.org/ which is a newer, fully open source fork of Open Office.

patman99

Damn, Toxteth beat me to it. LibreOffice is now the only way to go as all bar 1 of the OpenOffice programmers quit and took the 3.6 code with them as the starting-point to LibreOffice.

Toxteth_OGrady

and it's going to be shipped in Ubuntu 11. Bye bye Open Office.