Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 79242
Problem resetting Writer to factory settings
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:41:09 UTC
Perhaps it would be better to provide a button to reset Writer to its factory settings. The earlier trouble report was: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Uninstall glitch--left behind damaging files My copy of OOo.org became corrupted, and I uninstalled it, or tried to. However, the uninstall didn't work. Instead, it left behind some damaging files, and, when, I reinstalled, OOo.org still didn't work. I was TERRIFIED that I was going to have to dump OOo.org entirely and switch to MS Word, or try to. The damaging files in question contained what is called a "profile." The uninstall should have done a clean uninstall, and uninstalled this, too. OOo.org 2.2.1 Writer Windows XP Home Service Pack 2 Dell Dimension 2400 Desktop with 256 MB, plenty of CPU and hard drive capacity Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4
Currently this can be achieved by deleting the config directory "OpenOffice.org2" in "c:\documents and settings\$username\Application data". Could be a useful enhancement, I think, for all OOo Applications.