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make openoffice portable the default app for openoffice documents

besonen - November 4, 2009 - 12:02pm

is there a quick way of making openoffice portable the default application that gets called when openoffice (and microsoft office) documents are opened?

thanks,
david


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nope

PortableApps are sopposed to be run from a removable drive. Thus, its ghard to integrate them into the system. I believe there are some workarounds/hacks in the forums, but I havent tried any of them.

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which threads

i've looked for (and have not found) forum threads that have information about making openoffice portable the default app.

can someone point me in the direction of any of these threads?

thanks,
david

Portable File Associator

Try Portable File Associator: http://portableapps.com/node/15583

It might be what you're looking for.