RE: Open Office in Windows 10

2015-09-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
rnbeas...@aol.com [mailto:grnbeas...@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 10:37 To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: Open Office in Windows 10 Dennis: When I click on the Open Office icon a box from User Account Control pops up on the screen: it asks: Do you want to allow this app from an u

Re: Open Office in Windows 10

2015-09-13 Thread James Knott
Perhaps he's running as a user and is being asked for the admin's password. BTW, contrary to common practice, users should not have admin privileges. They should be asked for the password when installing software. Otherwise they greatly compromise security and open the door for malware. Wheneve

RE: Open Office in Windows 10

2015-09-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I've never seen that. Please provide more details. What do you mean "authorize" -- what exactly is the message and how does it come up? Then, did you upgrade to Windows 10 [Home?] on a machine that already had OpenOffice installed? - Dennis - Please respond to the users@openoffice.apache