OpenOffice Portable

I tried to make a presentation and when I selected a transition effect it crashed several times. I was not online so I didn't send the error report. Is this normal ?

I was under the impression that the launcher would bring up a small bar with icons to click for each of the components of Open Office. Or I thought it might put a button on my system try with a right-click menu like a previous version of (non-portable) OOo did. When I double click OpenOfficePortable.exe, I get an empty app window with a normal menu bar at the top. Is this what the Open Office launcher is supposed to do? That doesn't seem much like a "launcher" to me.

After the discovery of ClamWin leaving files, I tested all the other apps and found the same problem in OOPortable.
This time its:
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\[username]\Lokale Einstellungen\Temp\nsy32.tmp\newadvsplash.dll
Is there any pattern newadsplash.dll uses to name these temp folders?

EDIT
Audacity also creates a folder:
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\[username]\Lokale Einstellungen\Temp\audacity_1_2_temp\
when Ii launch a fresh copy for the first time.
In addition to that, it creates the newadsplash.dll folder and an

I have six Open Office menu options in the Portable Apps menu: Base, Draw, Math, Writer, Calc and Impress. In my Portable Apps/OpenOfficePortable folder I have seven exe files; one for each of the above plus one that simply launches the Open Office application.

I have removed the six apps from the Portable Apps menu by renaming .exe to .ex_, but I can't get the PortableApps menu to acknowledge the OpenOfficePortable.exe application.

Can it be done? If so, how?

I use Win XP Home with a restricted user account. Office starts and after a few seconds it stops responding and only shows the sandglass.
When started with "run as..." under the administrator account everything is fine.
Any ideas?

Regards,
Bodo

Whenever I use OOo/Portable from a USB flash drive, it leaves several processes open that keep Windows from giving me permission to pull the drive. It seems to happen on either of two different USB drives I use. Is there a known cause or fix? (Don't know if it matters, but I do not have OOo installed on the host where this happens.)

I don't know if anybody else has a problem with this, but it's really getting to be a pain for me. I often use a digital signature with my emails and any documents I intend to distribute on disk. The problem is OpenOffice only loads signatures/certificates from the host computer's default browser.

I understand that MS Office creates temporary files when it opens spreadsheets, Word documents etc. and these could be left on the hard disk after closing MS Office.

If I open an MS Office document or spreadsheet using Portable OOo and the file being opened is on a USB memory stick, would there be any temporary files left somewhere on the host computer?

I use Open Office for all my correspondence which is about 20 letters a day. I have been saving them to my U3 cruzer until I have about a weeks work then move them to a CD and delete the copies from my cruzer. Last Thursday I needed to review one of my letters and tried to down load it from the CD, I accidently clicked on the fire fox button and all the files on the CD immediately changed their icon to the firefox icon and now I can not open any of the files on that particular CD.

i would like to open addressbook of portable thunderbird in my usb hdd, in portable openoffice. i tried opening, but portable openoffice tries looking at the the default locaion for addressbook in c:/documents & settings/.... folder, & i could not find any way of changing the path.

can anyone help ?