

Eventually there will appear an Error message, saying "Warning 1909: cant create the OpenOffice shortcut". Now you open the installation file "Apache OpenOffice.exe" at the desktop, let the installation guide proceed. This file is now allowed to be opened, and can be found as "added" under the "+." sign at the "Allow and app."- window.

There you click the "+ Add an allowed app"- sign, in the File explorer- window that appears, you choose desktop and select the downloaded file "Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6 Win x86 install sv.exe", press "open" and the file explorer- window will close. Then open the "Allow an app through controlled folder access"- window in Windows Defender Security Centre. I choose "save as" and selected desktop as destination, continue and let the file be completely downloaded.

Go to the official OpenOffice website, choose your download, you will get redirected to the downloadsite and after a moment you will be asked what to do with the downloading file. I had the same problems and my solution was as follows: This has to do with the (very effective) Window Defender Settings. If you are not using Windows, please let us know what operating system you are using and please consider adding you OS and AOO version information in your signature so we don't have to guess. You should also read the instructions for Downloading and Installing Apache OpenOffice. Click nothing on that page - the download will start after a few seconds. The page you reach should offer you a suitable file for download according to your version of Windows - just accept that choice and you will be transferred to a Sourceforge page for the actual download. Go to or use the download link at the bottom right of any page on the forum. You've posted this in the Windows subforum of Install, Setup and Troubleshooting so I'll assume you are using Windows and your signature shows apache-openoffice-4.1.5-r1817496-src.zip so I'll guess that is the file you downloaded to try to install Apache OpenOffice.īased on those assumptions, that is the wrong file to install AOO it in fact contains the source code to allow one to compile the program. You haven't given any detail to work with so I'll take a few guesses.
