Got a new PC, it's nice. Everything I could want, and Windows 7 is turning out to be pretty cool. Finally upgraded my ancient low memory frustration to something decent, not great, but far better than I had. 750 gb instead of 80, 6 gb Ram instead of measuring it in MB, etc. Does stuff my old PC would have killed itself doing easily. I can finally run some programs that have been sitting on my HD. I've got a 500 gb external HD, bringing my memory capacity up to 1.25 TB, and now I've got the ram and processor to make use of it without dragging my speed down to a crawl. I can also watch HD video now, and get 5.1 sound when it's available, which is also nice.
I'm satisfied and enjoying the new PC. Still working out the kinks and transferring stuff over and all. I'll be hooking stuff up to it through the network in the near future, the PS3 and 360 will be a pain, but once done, it will be worth the effort.
Anyway, to the point, I discovered very quickly that Windows 7 hates Openoffice. More specifically, the newest version 3.1.1.
If you upgrade to Windows 7 in the near future, and like Openoffice for writing with, you need to revert back to 2.4.3 again. The newest Openoffice does not work. I dislike MS Word, and prefer oOO for writing. The older version works fine.
In case anyone else has been having issues and haven't resolved them, just download the older version and install it and you should be fine.
So, those who upgrade, or might in the near future be aware, you need to roll back to the earlier version of oOO if it's your preferred writing program.
I'll be keeping my eye out for a patch or fix to the issue, but for now, fair warning to oOO users about Windows 7.
I'm satisfied and enjoying the new PC. Still working out the kinks and transferring stuff over and all. I'll be hooking stuff up to it through the network in the near future, the PS3 and 360 will be a pain, but once done, it will be worth the effort.
Anyway, to the point, I discovered very quickly that Windows 7 hates Openoffice. More specifically, the newest version 3.1.1.
If you upgrade to Windows 7 in the near future, and like Openoffice for writing with, you need to revert back to 2.4.3 again. The newest Openoffice does not work. I dislike MS Word, and prefer oOO for writing. The older version works fine.
In case anyone else has been having issues and haven't resolved them, just download the older version and install it and you should be fine.
So, those who upgrade, or might in the near future be aware, you need to roll back to the earlier version of oOO if it's your preferred writing program.
I'll be keeping my eye out for a patch or fix to the issue, but for now, fair warning to oOO users about Windows 7.