I found the best way to be rid of the Welcome/License/Registration wizard is to create an administrative install point and let OO copy the required file to each users profile the first time it … Read More

Found this information on forums and other websites, might be helpfull Changing the Default File Saving Format, edit the following files in the C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\share\regis… Read More

The -nofirststartwizard is the only thing that worked for me in my install of 2.1 today. All the Setup.xcu editing had no effect...which I found surprising. For my Windows 2K computers on a … Read More

To get rid of the first-run wizard for any user, I replaced the default icons on the start menu with custom-made icons with targets as follows: "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program\sba… Read More

You can configure the Memory Options for open office pre install: Here's how. The file is common.xcs and i found at this path in my admin install package share\registry\schema\org\openoffice\O… Read More

I installed OOo_2.0.156_Win32Intel_install.exe using OOo_2.0.156_Win32Intel_install.exe /S as it's an NSIS package. Excel and Word were already installed, and the .doc/.xls associations were … Read More

Reg dialog, dictionaries and language: All these customizations are possible to do in a transform, you don't need to "copy after installation". Easiest way to replace files in a transform is t… Read More

The method of getting rid of the quickstarter, posted by jib, works for me! Here is the transform i've used. Simply apply over the msi in the GPO. It's exactly as described by jib but with th… Read More

The method of getting rid of the quickstarter, posted by jib, doesn't work for me. I followed jib's steps exactly and tried installing it (each time on a fresh XP install) with TRANSFORMS= on t… Read More

Use Orca/Windows Installer SDK (MS Platform SDK) to make a custom transform. a. Set the properties you need in the Property table. ALLUSERS=1 (actually not needed for AD deployment, AD install… Read More

To create an administrative installation: Unpack your setup exes to different folders using the default installer. Just press cancel after the extraction. Run setup.exe /a to create an admin… Read More

OpenOffice.org version 2 ships with an MSI installer. There is little to no documentation on the meaning of various properties, but you can get some useful information by reading selected bits … Read More