[openoffice - 3] Disable the first time user registration wizard

[clarky2k3]

Is it possible to disable the first time user registration for open office 3? If any one has accomplished this, then any help would be greatly appreciated.

[rush_tech]

We could'nt find a way. The only way we could find to get around it was to install the portable version it does all that we want.

[Geoff]

There's some info on Appdeploy about this.

 

http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=497

[jsnetman]

I managed to do it, but for the life of me I cannot remember how I did it. Seem to vaguely remember it's done by using a special extraction method to get the MSI. When I remember I will post.

[mattx]

Yes there is - you can use my VERY bad script if you like.....

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/24690-guide-bad-scripting-me.html

[jsnetman]

Ah yes now I remember. It's is all to to with the office.org folder held in appdata of a user profile. Here we use two types of profile mandatory for pupils and local for staff. For mandatory profiles I simply copied the openoffice.org folder after registration into the appdata folder of the profile. For local profiles I use a user startup batch file to copy the openoffice.org folder after registration from a server share down to the local profile. Hope this makes sense.

[clarky2k3]

Thanks for all your help but for now I just replaced the default icons on the start menu with custom-made icons with targets as follows:

 

"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0\program\sbase.exe" -nofirststartwizard

"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0\program\scalc.exe" -nofirststartwizard

etc...

[AngryITGuy]

Ah yes now I remember. It's is all to to with the office.org folder held in appdata of a user profile. Here we use two types of profile mandatory for pupils and local for staff. For mandatory profiles I simply copied the openoffice.org folder after registration into the appdata folder of the profile. For local profiles I use a user startup batch file to copy the openoffice.org folder after registration from a server share down to the local profile. Hope this makes sense.

 

I would also second this solution as its the method we used here to stop the Registration Wizard from starting.

 

The file in question resides in %userprofile%\Application Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\registry\data\org\openoffice and is called setup.xcu

Edited November 13, 2008 by AngryITGuy

[torry_loon]

Deactivating the OpenOffice.org Registration Wizard - OpenOffice.org Wiki

[CyberNerd]

Thanks for all your help but for now I just replaced the default icons on the start menu with custom-made icons with targets as follows:

 

"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0\program\sbase.exe" -nofirststartwizard

"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0\program\scalc.exe" -nofirststartwizard

etc...

 

IIRC this method won't help if someone opens OOo by doubleclicking a file.

put this in a batchfile to sort that.

 

ftype opendocument.CalcDocument.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\scalc.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.CalcTemplate.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.exe" -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.DatabaseDocument.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\sbase.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.DrawDocument.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\sdraw.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.DrawTemplate.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.exe" -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.ImpressDocument.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\simpress.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.ImpressTemplate.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.MathDocument.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\smath.exe" -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.WriterDocument.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\swriter.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.WriterGlobalDocument.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.exe" -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.WriterTemplate.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.exe" -o "%%1"



ftype opendocument.WriterWebTemplate.1="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype OpenOffice.org.Docx="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\swriter.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype OpenOffice.org.Dotx="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\swriter.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype OpenOffice.org.Docm="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\swriter.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype OpenOffice.org.Dotm="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\swriter.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype OpenOffice.org.Pptx="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\simpress.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype OpenOffice.org.Pptm="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\simpress.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"





ftype OpenOffice.org.Xlsb="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\scalc.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype OpenOffice.org.Xlsx="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\scalc.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype OpenOffice.org.Xlsm="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\scalc.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype OpenOffice.org.Xltm="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\scalc.exe" -nofirststartwizard -o "%%1"



ftype OpenOffice.org.Xltx="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\scalc.exe" -nofirststartwizard

 

another option is to make a default application data\openoffice.org directory in the users (mandatory) profile. This method means you can modify startup times and set other default settings.