Description: Following the Microsoft Creators Update installation Libre Office portable won't open from my standard user account. The process appears in Task Manager but the program doesn't open. Continued double clicks of the writer.exe or main .exe results in more (mulitple) processes appearing in Task Manager sometimes using 99% CPU. Running it with administrative privileges opens it but with an error saying that it crashed the last time it was opened. Once the program is closed the process continues to run (Task Manager) using CPU cycles. At the time of the Creators Update I was using 5.2.3 Portable. I shift+deleted Libre Office 5.2.3 and installed 5.2.6 Portable for which the issue persists. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open writer.exe 2.Process appears in Task Manager but program doesn't open. 3.Run as administrator, program opens, close program - process continues to run. Actual Results: Had to manually close the processes or restart the computer due to process/es running that couldn't be found. Expected Results: Opened as usual. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Uncertain where user profile resides in the Portable version but shift+deleted complete Libre Office folder and re-installed with the same issue. Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.96 Safari/537.36
Created attachment 133087 [details] Multiple instances of Libre Office in Task Manager.
The issue seems to be with running the program as a standard user without administrative privileges. I have installed the installable 5.3.2 version. When run from the administrator account the program looks to work completely as normal. Run as administrator from a standard user account also works normally. Run as a standard user results in the issues noted.
did you try another portable package like X-LibreOffice? here's where you can download the latest X-LibO 5.2.6 or 5.3.2 releases. please tell if you have the same issues as in LibO Portable
I updated to Creators Update. With an unprivileged user account, the normal installation starts fine: Version: 5.3.3.1 (x64) Build ID: 46360c72c4823cefeaa85af537fba22bd568da7e CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.19; UI Render: default; Layout Engine: new; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI); Calc: group With the same account, I was also able to run the portable version: Version: 5.3.2.2 Build ID: 6cd4f1ef626f15116896b1d8e1398b56da0d0ee1 CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.2; UI Render: default; Layout Engine: new; Locale: en-US (fi_FI); Calc: group
Adjusting summary as reporter confirmed with non-portable.
@tommy27 The issue persists with X-LibreOffice from my standard user account. I'm experiencing some other issues with missing icons so I might have a corrupt user profile. I try the programs with a new user account.
I've been further investigating the issue and some forum help suggested a corrupted user profile. Interestingly I have some other issues following the version 1703 Creators Update upgrade that persist over new user accounts as well, so those issues including the Libre Office issues may not necessarily be a user profile corruption but an issue with Win 10 1703 itself or particular user configurations... Interestingly I've ran both SFC /Scannow and CHKDSK and following those scans Libre Office now opens normally from the standard user account I was having issues with. It may be that there a some issues that need fixing with 1703 or an issue with my particular configuration that a clean installation may fix.
(In reply to Kol12 from comment #7) > Interestingly I've ran both SFC /Scannow and CHKDSK and following those > scans Libre Office now opens normally from the standard user account I was > having issues with. It may be that there a some issues that need fixing with > 1703 or an issue with my particular configuration that a clean installation > may fix. Ah, that is great to hear and quite interesting indeed. Let's close this as notourbug due to these results.