LibreOffice_7.3.4_Win_x64 installation stuck on "removing shortcuts"

[bwp123]

A perennial LO problem: now with the latest version of LO, stuck on removing shortcuts.
Windows 10 standard operating system, 2022.

I have disabled all antivirus and rebooted. Nothing helps. it fails again.
Does anyone here know of a single stop easy to implement solution that allows ordinary non-developer users to install LO?

My great hope is evade at all costs answers that come back as “Read thousands of lines of technical language and attempt to understand the conceptual universe of LO.” I (and perhaps others?) use LO gratefully in order to write, keep and create documents.

I also hope that there is a means to accomplish the installation without removing LO from the computer altogether with all of the customizations etc., and all the Windows Jump lists. Those are what make the software useable for we mortals.

Much obliged to anyone who can paste in a short answer.
best wishes.

[just_helping]

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[mikekaganski]

@bwp123

Does anyone here know of a single stop easy to implement solution that allows ordinary non-developer users to install LO?

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/General/General_Installation_Issues_(Windows)

Namely, look closely at #6 “Use troubleshooter tool from Microsoft”, which gives you the wizard created by Windows creators who know that their installation solution is unreliable and needs cleaning from time to time

@bwp123

I also hope that there is a means to accomplish the installation without removing LO from the computer altogether with all of the customizations etc.

Note that removing LibreOffice does not remove these - because these are kept in user profile [1] which is never touched when installing/uninstalling.

@bwp123

and all the Windows Jump lists

And this is impossible at this moment, you will get those reset in any case of upgrading - see tdf#76131.

[1] LibreOffice user profile - The Document Foundation Wiki