Hi :) Actually my last suggestion is a kind of magic cure-all. Hmm, doesn't always fix everything of course but it's pretty good. For your particular problem there is probably just a single file locking LO from opening. There are 2 main places it's likely to be lurking but in either one you will need to be able to see hidden files. In Windows Xp just open any folder and click on Tools - "Folder Options" - View and scroll down a couple of lines until you see the radio-button for "Show hidden files and folders". It is in a sub-folder in that menu but it is usually open by default. Now open the folder where you were last working on a document. If you can find a file that starts with an ".~lock" then delete it. Next place to look is in your user-profile. The libreoffice/3/user/backups might have the file that is locking you out. If it's there just delete it. Please elt us know how this goes! Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Restore-Windows-Pop-Up-tp3494173p3496602.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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