How to remove an soffice error

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Soffice.exe file information

The process known as OpenOffice.org (version 2.0, 2.4, 2.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.1, 3.3, 2.2, 3.0, 1.1.5) or OOo-dev (version 3.3) or StarOffice (version 8) or ONE belongs to software IBM Lotus Symphony or OOo-dev by OpenOffice.org (www.openoffice.org) or Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) or ONE.

Description: The file soffice.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files". Known file sizes on Windows 7/XP are 2,334,720 bytes (17% of all occurrences), 7,424,000 bytes and 18 more variants.
There is no description of the program. The file is not a Windows system file. The program is not visible. The process can be uninstalled in the Control Panel. Therefore the technical security rating is 37% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.
You can do the following:
1) uninstall the program using the Control Panel ⇒ Add/Remove programs ⇒ OpenOffice.org or StarOffice 8
2) contact Openoffice Customer Service
3) search for an update on the vendor’s website.

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External information from Paul Collins:

"soffice" is not required to run at start up. Displays StarOffice quick start applet in System tray. Right clicking on the icon allows rapid starting up of components of the StarOffice 6.0 suite. Available via Start -> Programs. Automatically started when any StarOffice 6.0 component is started from the Start -> Programs. A resource hog (it eats > 16 MB of memory).

Important: Some malware camouflages itself as soffice.exe, particularly when located in the c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Therefore, you should check the soffice.exe process on your PC to see if it is a threat. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. This was one of the Top Download Picks of The Washington Post and PC World.

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is the start part of the Open Office Project
matrix812 (further information)

Star Office Quickstart Taskbar Icon

Appears after OpenOffice.org installation and reboot.

Star Office Quickstart Taskbar Icon
Shalianahe

I know very little, but it does take up alot of RAM to run. If you have Word/Excel, then you do not need it.

I have an soffice.exe file size of 2,280 KB in c:\programs\openoffice.org2.1\program , which seems to make it a normal part of that congenial and free wordprocessor.
Arthur Borges

Belongs to the OO-Suite

Lotus Symphony also installs
Joe

Soffice.exe / .bin / .ini are all part of open office.org project. As that is the office products that I use, and those files are part of tht program.
John

OpenOffice...wie auch soffice.bin

This is a background process running as NT Service if you wish to invoke API interactions through your software program.
Balaji V

Its a POS
Chris

It's a file for OpenOffice.org

Well, its just part of OO. Deinstall it if it really bothers you :)
Gijs~

it won't let me use my open office.org

That it keeps freezing up my computer and I've NEVER had or used or are interested in using it. Get it da fug off my computer once and friggin for all!!! - RB
Richard

Summary: Average user rating of soffice.exe: based on 20 votes with 16 reviews.

13 users think soffice.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 3 users think it's probably harmless. 2 users think it's neither essential nor dangerous. 2 users suspect danger. 2 users doesn't grade soffice.exe ("not sure about it").

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