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Ok, deleting a thing doesn't always uninstall it in Windows. I think it works in Wine but not Windows. (errr Wine stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator" because it is a far more sophisticated way of getting Windows programs running on non-MS platforms). So can you open the "Add/remove programs" thing in Win7? it's a real pain to try to find it. I tend to stumble onto it by accident and then quickly do everything i can that i need to before i lose it again. It might be that when you say you have deleted programs you have been using the right tool, especially if you have much experience with Vista (which i mostly managed to dodge).
So, when you say you deleted the programs was that by drag&dropping them into the wastebin or right-clicking on the program folde and choosing delete or did you find some weird gui that looked a bit like a normal folder with odd things in it?
Ok, so if Win7 was pre-installed then we can kinda rule that out of the equation for now. The way you were talking about it made it sound like you had bought a Win7 Dvd and installed it yourself without having had much experience of doing that sort of thing. It's not as easy as people make out! So, we can definitely rule out needing to install Ubuntu just in order to make sure you have a working OS on your machine at this stage!!
Ok, so when we say to rename "the" user profile that is only the user profile for LO, not for Win7! Each program tends to have it's own way of storing all those settings and configurations. They all tend to store them separately and most have different ideas of what are the best ways of doing it. Some allow users to go in and mess around with stuff but others really freak out and cause problems!
Most OpenSource programs tend to use the same folder to set-up a sub-folder for themselves. Then inside that folder they may only have a little text-file that you can read and maybe even edit with Notepad! LibreOffice tends to have tons of stuff in there so they have a number of sub-folders inside their main sub-folder = such as one sub-sub-folder to contain all Extensions, another for back-ups, another for galleries of images, another for templates and so on. If you rename the main sub-folder and then open LibreOffice again it will automatically create a new one with all the default settings. Of course since you only renamed rather than deleted it you can always copy some of those sub-sub-folders back to regain settings and see if it was that sub-sub-folder that was causing the problem. Many of us try to create a copy of a working sub-folder in order to be able to quickly revert to a working system if one of our users has done something crazy
or had an accident.
Ok, so navigate to
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\config\LibreOffice\3
When you were in the \config part of that you might have noticed other folders alongside the LO one. Programs such as Firefox, hmmm, well Firefox is run by the Mozilla Foundation and they have a few programs so they tend to put one sub-folder called "Mozilla" and then create a sub-sub-folder in their each time you install one of their other programs.
My usual prefered way is to rename the "3" folder to todays date written backwards. Some people just rename it to "backup" or some-such but then they don't always know which is the one that caused tons of problems and which is their real back-up [shrugs]. So once you have renamed
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\config\LibreOffice\3
to be
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\config\LibreOffice\somethingelse
then make sure you have closed any documents and all other open instances of LibreOffice and then try opening a document or just open LibreOffice. Hopefully problems will have magically vanished but please let us know.
Regards from
Tom