hi ...
first of all, my thanks to the person who enabled me to gain access to this forum ... was unable to simply login or when i attempted to re-register ... i was going around in circles. your email to me was a big help.
have just re-installed my w7 and have attempted to installed openoffice 418 more times than i care to think of and because each time, the process just stopped a couple of minutes after setup.exe then i attempted to install v417 and got the same result.
each time, a message came up on screen and quoted a file called 'vcredist_64.exe'. in the past few years, i've had no problem with oo installations so why this should be happening now, i have no idea.
is 'vcredist_64.exe' part of the installation or could it a file within my w7.
either way, i would have no idea as to how to solve this problem and would very much appreciate any help please.
apart from this awful virus that is all around the world, i hope you all had a lovely new year and wish everyone the very best for 2021.
hope to hear from anyone please.
michael.