[Solved] Reopen box showing all the time

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Margaret52
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[Solved] Reopen box showing all the time

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A box appears every time I open the software:
"The last time you opened OpenOffice.org, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again?"
Underneath this are two buttons to Reopen or Don't Reopen. Doesn't matter which one I click on, nothing happens and the box remains there. It won't let me cut and paste or close down Open Office and I have to force quit. How can I get rid of it?
Last edited by Margaret52 on Tue May 10, 2016 3:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Reopen box showing all the time

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Hi and welcome to the forum!

See for example: [Solved] "Un-closable" "Restore Windows" Message.
Plenty of similar topics.

Please add [Solved] at the beginning of the title in your first post (top of the topic) with the edit button if your issue has been fixed.
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Re: Reopen box showing all the time

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Greetings and welcome to the community forum!

Did you try the steps shown here?
viewtopic.php?p=244931#p244931
 Edit: PS: 
Oops! Too slow. (This is the same as Hagar's suggestion.)
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Re: [Solved] Reopen box showing all the time

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Thank you so much for pointing me in the direction of the screenshots - I have no affinity with technology and the written instructions meant nothing to me, but as soon as I saw the visuals, no problem! Very grateful for these.
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Glad it was helpful!

Are you still using OO 3.4? I believe this problem was fixed in the subsequent OO releases (now up to 4.1.2).
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Please help, i go thought the steps listed however in the "library" from the "go menu" there isn't a file called "Saved Application State" therefore I can't go any further. Any help much appreciated.
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Carefully follow the instructions in
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=55755#p244931
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Hi RoryOF, thank you so so sooooo much! I was losing my mind over this, very happy! Once again, thank you!!!
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