Mark Richardson wrote:
>
> I've been *very* happy with the progress made in recent versions of
> Abiword. Keep up the great work. Here's one peculiar behavior I can't
> find described among current bugs: When I click on an Abiword
> document, two windows (two "instances" of the same file) open. They
> are identical. I'm thinking it may have something to do with my
> having both 2.0.8 and 2.1.3 installed (though they otherwise work
> flawlessly from separate directories). Both instances of these files
> identify themselves as "Abiword 2.0.8." This is not a problem when I
> open a document from within Abiword. It only occurs when I click on
> an already-existing document.
>
> I'm running Windows XP with Abiword 2.0.8 and 2.1.3. Thanks for any help.
>
> --Mark Richardson
>
>
Are you familiar with the Windows Registry? This is a known problem
with a known fix, but I'd like to know a bit more about it. I used to
have this problem, until I fixed it, and I didn't record some Registry
data I wanted. Click Start, Run, type regedit, then navigate to these
keys, and at each, go File, Export, double-check "Selected Branch", then
save as as unique file names, and email them to me. Be very careful in
the Registry: Don't change, remove, or import _anything_.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AbiSuite.AbiWord
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AbiSuite
This will not send any personal information to me, it just tells me a
few things about the set up of file associations for AbiWord.
Now, for the fix.
Uninstall both versions of AbiWord. Then, install them again from the
setup files, in the following order: First, the version you do not want
to handle files by default, then the version you want as your default
file editor. This will probably be 2.1.3 then 2.0.8. This should fix
the problem.
Thanks for using AbiWord!
Ryan
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Received on Tue Jul 20 07:30:07 2004
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