Description: I foolishly installed the new Libra office 24 on my laptop running Windows 10. Discovered it couldn't make a write document or read one. Uninstalled it and reinstalled 7.6, which worked fine. Until suddenly it was replaced a couple days later by 24, without my doing anything. I uninstalled 24 and reinstalled 7.6 and was okay till 24 reappeared. Tonight I uninstalled 24and reinstalled 7.6. I worked for several hours, And suddenly everything got very weird and it crashed. I looked up and 24 had reinstalled itself again! Now I'm in another fix because Windows 11 is now forcing itself on this machine. I have the creepy feeling that Libra office 24 called it in! We have several other machines in the house also running Windows 10 that we're not willing to upgrade if we can help it, and running older Libreoffices just fine. I am afraid for them. Help! Actual Results: I installed the newest Libra office 24. Found it didn't work. Uninstalled it and installed the next newest. Expected Results: The Libra office 24 reinstalled itself over the Libra office 7.6, This repeated three times. Twice while I was not using the machine and once while I was in the middle of writing a document Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: 24 should have stayed the hell away! I deleted it from downloads and it did not appear in the downloads the last time it imposed itself. I made sure the automatic upgrade was *not* checked.
When you install LibreOffice 24.2, did you download it from official website, https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/ ? Anyway, could you try: - uninstall any LO versions you got on your machine - rename your LO directory profile (see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/FirstSteps#Corrupted_user_profile) - upgrade your graphic driver (it may help for crashes related to Skia component which is used by LO) - download Libreoffice (7.6 or 24.2) from official website and reinstall it ?
LibreOffice does not upgrade itself, it still has no code to do that. If you have this problem, you definitely have other "helpful" applications that upgrade it. One possibility is your antivirus: see https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/stop-lo-updates-win10/81989/2. Anyway, this is not something that LibreOffice does, and hence not something that we could fix.