installing for multiple users?sgp - October 29, 2006 - 2:07am
I know this may sound like a contradiction in terms, but I would like to be able to run OOo Portable on a multiuser winxp pro sp2 PC. I use portable apps a lot to simplify software upgrades on a pool of like PCs, as well as on several USB sticks. The former setup involves multiuser support. (in the following description, I use the term "log in" to indicate logging on via the fast user switching winxp facility) 1. User A logs in and doesn't run OOoP, then user B also logs in and runs OOoP. OOo Writer seems to hang, I have to kill it with task manager. OOo Draw works OK, but it seems to hang when clicking on the T tool (text). Pasting text directly from the clipboard works OK. 2. User B exits OOoP and restarts it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't (nothing happens). I can see with task manager that multiple copies of soffice.exe are running. Killing them all restores the ability to start OOoP. 3. User C logs in while user B's OOoP is running. OOo displays a warning window saying that "some user is already running OOo" and to make sure "to close the other instance before running this one". ( categories: )
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