[Solved] Installation oddity/confusion
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:53 am
Activated JavaScript in order to detect my operating system and download the installation file. It's unclear whether the installation file I am downloading is 32 bit or 64 bit. Since I'm running 64-bit Windows 10, I would hope it's the latter, but maybe it's not made like that. No way to know.
I downloaded the installation file - 127MB
I double-clicked the downloaded file and up comes the OpenOffice Setup window. It tells me where it is going to install OpenOffice. The folder it specifies is my Downloads folder. Why would it install a program to my Downloads folder? Shouldn't it go in the Program Files folder?
It's still unclear to me if this is a 32 or 64 bit program, so I change the folder to Program Files (x86) to be safe and create a new folder, Open Office.
Off ya go!
It runs through a whole bunch of installing windows with growing green lines and whatnot, while I go off and check out Facebook.
Suddenly there is a new OpenOffice Setup window, with the same message of this is where we are going to install OpenOffice. I thought you already installed OpenOffice! Did I click something I shouldn't have? Did I relaunch the installation program? What is going on?
Then I notice the folder it is going to install to is in Program File (x86)/OpenOffice 4
Well, that makes more sense. And off it goes, doing the whole installation thing again.
Now it's running fine, as far as I can tell. But I have two OpenOffice folders in Program Files (x86)
The best I can tell is that the first one was to install the install program.
Every other program deletes its installation files, but here I am with an entire folder of stuff and I don't know if I can delete this stuff or if it's a secondary repository or what.
It's a fairly terrible installation sequence anyway. Hopefully the program itself lives up to the hype.
So please tell me, can I delete this entire folder created by the first installation sequence?
Thanks!
I downloaded the installation file - 127MB
I double-clicked the downloaded file and up comes the OpenOffice Setup window. It tells me where it is going to install OpenOffice. The folder it specifies is my Downloads folder. Why would it install a program to my Downloads folder? Shouldn't it go in the Program Files folder?
It's still unclear to me if this is a 32 or 64 bit program, so I change the folder to Program Files (x86) to be safe and create a new folder, Open Office.
Off ya go!
It runs through a whole bunch of installing windows with growing green lines and whatnot, while I go off and check out Facebook.
Suddenly there is a new OpenOffice Setup window, with the same message of this is where we are going to install OpenOffice. I thought you already installed OpenOffice! Did I click something I shouldn't have? Did I relaunch the installation program? What is going on?
Then I notice the folder it is going to install to is in Program File (x86)/OpenOffice 4
Well, that makes more sense. And off it goes, doing the whole installation thing again.
Now it's running fine, as far as I can tell. But I have two OpenOffice folders in Program Files (x86)
The best I can tell is that the first one was to install the install program.
Every other program deletes its installation files, but here I am with an entire folder of stuff and I don't know if I can delete this stuff or if it's a secondary repository or what.
It's a fairly terrible installation sequence anyway. Hopefully the program itself lives up to the hype.
So please tell me, can I delete this entire folder created by the first installation sequence?
Thanks!