Quick start opens writer?

  I recently installed eCS 2 rc4 along with OO2.04 and the WPS extension.
Everything seemed to go smoothly, and everything seemed to work.

 I decided to set OO to start during bootup (quick start). Now when I boot,
intead of OO loading silently in the background a blank Text Document opens.
Checking the quick start icon shows it is not cross-hatched, and still needs
to be started (even though it is in the startup folder). None of this
happened when I was using OO on eCS2 rc3.

 Has anyone else seen this? Is there a way to prevent the writer from
starting? I have tried un-installing and re-installing but I always get the
same behavior.

TIA,

Dave McKenna

   Well... I discovered what the problem is. The folder located at
\OpenOffice\share\template\wizard\letter\en-US is flagged as a startup
folder! All of the templates there are loading at startup.

  Is there a way to chage this to a normal folder?

Dave Mckenna

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:33:14 -0500 (EST), David McKenna wrote:

>  I recently installed eCS 2 rc4 along with OO2.04 and the WPS extension.
>Everything seemed to go smoothly, and everything seemed to work.
>
> I decided to set OO to start during bootup (quick start). Now when I boot,
>intead of OO loading silently in the background a blank Text Document
opens.
>Checking the quick start icon shows it is not cross-hatched, and still
needs
>to be started (even though it is in the startup folder). None of this
>happened when I was using OO on eCS2 rc3.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Is there a way to prevent the writer from
>starting? I have tried un-installing and re-installing but I always get the
>same behavior.
>
>TIA,
>
>Dave McKenna
>
>

Andreas,

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:12:25 +0100, Andreas Schnellbacher wrote:

>   Application             Key          Value
>   PM_Workplace:Startup -> <handle1> -> Y.
>                        -> <handle2> -> Y.
>
>   The complete hex handle would be the key value with "3"
prepended.
>   The dot after the "Y" means, that its null-terminated.
>

   Thanks... I deleted the key with the '3' and now I'm back to normal.

Dave McKenna

On 29.12.07 23:21, David McKenna wrote:

> The folder located at
> \OpenOffice\share\template\wizard\letter\en-US is flagged as a startup
> folder!
>
> Is there a way to chage this to a normal folder?

Use REGEDIT2 or another ini editor (I prefer Initor 2.5) and try to find
out the object handle for that folder in OS2.INI:

   Application             Key          Value
   PM_Workplace:Startup -> <handle1> -> Y.
                        -> <handle2> -> Y.

   The complete hex handle would be the key value with "3" prepended.
   The dot after the "Y" means, that its null-terminated.

Most likely, the first entry is the original Startup folder, while the
second entry should be deleted. In order to test that, you could change
the "Y" to "N". After successful WPS startup (without the
unwanted
objects), you may want to remove that key.

An easier alternative to find the right entry would be to use a script
like the following. After the culprit was found, delete it:

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/*
ShowFileObjHex.cmd

Shows object settings for a hex object handle. Must be called with

   ShowFileObhHex <handle>

where <handle> is the hexadecimal object handle for a file object,
without the leading "3". E.g. the PM_Workplace:Startup key values can
be used as an arg for that.
*/

call RxFuncAdd 'WPToolsLoadFuncs', 'WPTOOLS', 'WPToolsLoadFuncs'
call WPToolsLoadFuncs

/* Prepend a 3 for file objects (would be a 2 for abstract objects) */
hObj = '3'strip( arg(1))
Obj = '#'hObj

rcx = WPToolsQueryObject( Obj, 'Class', 'Title', 'Setup', 'Location')
if rcx then
do
   say 'Object  :' Obj
   say 'Class   :' Class
   say 'Title   :' Title
   say 'Location:' Location
   say 'Setup   :' Setup
end
else
  say 'Unable to return object settings for 'Obj

exit
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