LibreOffice for Windows XP

[luweitest]

As https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/System_Requirements stated the last version for WinXP should be 5.4.7.2, but after I installed it, run any application would give a "use CTRL+C to exit" error:

The error is like those which do not support WinXP.

Is my system have any problem, or the official statement could be wrong?

[mina7601]

No, the last version is actually 5.4.7.2. It is also working fine on my side, so I think something is wrong with your system.

[luweitest]

Thanks for the confirmation. Then how should I debug?

[mina7601]

Do you have update KB4493563 installed? If yes, uninstall that and then see if LibreOffice works or not.

Edited April 14, 2024 by mina7601

[luweitest]

Yes, I updated all post-SP3 updates. But I cannot find uninstall option for it (it is not in the control panel's update list, maybe because I did a disk clean before to reclaim the space of $*** folders in c:\windows ), so I installed it again and restarted. But it still does not appear in the update list. And LibreOffice still does not work

[MilkChan]

58 minutes ago, luweitest said:

As https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/System_Requirements stated the last version for WinXP should be 5.4.7.2, but after I installed it, run any application would give a "use CTRL+C to exit" error:

The error is like those which do not support WinXP.

Is my system have any problem, or the official statement could be wrong?

I suspect that's a problem in the Posready update.
Microsoft causes message boxes to break in ntdll.dll and not display properly.
I am solving this problem for all languages.
Have you installed the posready 2009 update as well?
https://win2k.org/blog/2019/03/22/1981317/

[luweitest]

Yes, all of posready 2009 updates.

[mina7601]

35 minutes ago, MilkChan said:

I suspect that's a problem in the Posready update.
Microsoft causes message boxes to break in ntdll.dll and not display properly.
I am solving this problem for all languages.
Have you installed the posready 2009 update as well?
https://win2k.org/blog/2019/03/22/1981317/

It's KB4493563 (that I mentioned above) that is causing this problem. (see also @FranceBB's reply)

https://msfn.org/board/topic/171814-posready-2009-updates-ported-to-windows-xp-sp3-enu/?do=findComment&comment=1162217

Edited April 15, 2024 by mina7601

[luweitest]

I could remember that post. I should have run all the three command:

regsvr32 MSI.DLL
regsvr32 MSIHND.DLL
regsvr32 MSISIP.DLL 

To be sure I run them again, but still not work.

Do I have  to replace the NTDLL.dll?

[luweitest]

depends.exe give out this (max total size is only 4.23kB so I have to upload to another site):

https://imgur.com/a/cdsIunZ

it complains about IESHIMS.dll missing.

Edited April 15, 2024 by luweitest

[mina7601]

1 minute ago, luweitest said:

depends.exe give out this (max total size is only 4.23kB so I have to upload to another site):

https://imgur.com/a/cdsIunZ

it complains about IESHIMS.dll missing.

Can you open soffice.bin with Dependency Walker instead and profile it from there?

[luweitest]

with soffice.bin:

https://imgur.com/a/LVdd40V

Kernel32.dll and MPR.dll?

[MilkChan]

25 minutes ago, luweitest said:

I could remember that post. I should have run all the three command:

regsvr32 MSI.DLL
regsvr32 MSIHND.DLL
regsvr32 MSISIP.DLL 

To be sure I run them again, but still not work.

Do I have  to replace the NTDLL.dll?

I'll fixed it for you and I'll send it in a DM and I'll upload it to archive.org.

[luweitest]

9 minutes ago, MilkChan said:

I'll fixed it for you and I'll send it in a DM and I'll upload it to archive.org.

Thanks. Will it be to replace ntdll.dll in system32 folder?

[MilkChan]

4 minutes ago, luweitest said:

Thanks. Will it be to replace ntdll.dll in system32 folder?

Yeah will give you a new file as well.