Hello Carol,
Due to your previous post, where it took you so long to download OO, I'd say
to trash the program and redownload it from another site.
Generally, when something is so difficult to download, it becomes corrupted,
in my experience.
Also, as per another post, do a virus scan on your computer (and the file)
first, and when you go to install it, make sure you turn off any virus
checking software and any other unnecessary processes you have going on.
Can you tell us where you downloaded the program from? There are several
mirrors, and choosing the one closest to you is always the best bet. Also,
choose the executable rather than the zip and see if that helps.
Here are complete instructions for downloading Open Office:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html
Good luck, it's an excellent program, with only a little learning curve.
Sue Clark
Bristol, ME
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 12:07 PM
> Subject: Open Office download
>
> I followed the advice of many here and downloaded Open Office, in an
attempt
> to see if I could then read my thousands of documents that evidently have
> became corrupted and not able to open, because of having used Word Viewer
on
> my old Win98SE system, to read others' documents sent to me.. It took
about
> an hour+ to download O.O. It's a zipped file and I recently installed
Just
> Zip It, which I've never had before. (Someone here recommended it over
> Winzip, which I never liked, so thought I'd try it.) Just Zip It unzipped
> it, I guess - another icon appeared for O.O. that contained the word
> 'install', so I clicked on it and got the message that it is corrupted.
> Before I spend another hour+, (will probably be a lot longer during the
> day), downloading O.O., I decided to ask here if there is a possibility
> Just Zip It did something to corrupt the file. Would I be better off to
> uninstall it and get Winzip before I download O.O.? Or, should I use some
> other source for O.O?
>
> I ask, because in the past when I have downloaded things and they say
> they're corrupted, it never seems to help to just download them again, and
> this is too lengthy a process, and I need my documents back too badly, to
> just get into a 'continuous loop' so to speak.
> Thanks for any clues anyone can provide.
> Carol Hanson
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