Stephan: You could also try to bypass the recovery process. In a command interface (Start -> Run -> cmd), try the following: soffice -norestore Stephan: It might be necessary navigate to the directory where soffice resides (if there is no environment set) before you try the above command, but I'm really not sure. I haven't personally tried it, but from what I read it should skip the recovery process, which seems to be giving you some trouble. That works. Thanks. Once I started writer that way the other shortcuts (calc etc) worked too. Once I shut writer the normal shortcuts went back to recovery. I think there must be a recovery trigger file or registry setting that is causing the restore to trigger. Any thoughts on that? Ian -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-won-t-start-tp3098445p3116090.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+help@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmaster@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted