OpenOffice Error Messages on Win2k client

Lisa · Newbie Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 1

After recently installing OpenOffice 1.1 and uninstalling 1.0.0 and 1.0.2, my Windows2000 Sp3 machine has been giving me a error upon startup.

The error is: "soffice.exe The Application cannot be started. The configuration service is not available. Start the setup application to repair the installation from the CD or the folder containing the installation packages".

Upon getting that initial message I reinstalled OpenOffice 1.1 again. The error persists.

I've searched Google without success. Any ideas on what I should or could do to elminate this error?

Thanks.
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Kaaredyret · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject:

I don't know why you are experiencing this particular problem. I would do this if I were you:

- Uninstall using the uninstall program if you can
- Delete c:\program files\openoffice.org (or whatever the directory is called) manually
- Apply Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000
- Boot the computer

Then I would install OpenOffice.org 1.1 again
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