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The button icon with download arrow works very well at the small (detail) size.
I added a date to the beginning of the downloaded file name to help me differentiate different builds. I got the date of the build wrong, but it work as a differentiator for the download and these screenshots anyhow.
the larger button icon is great too, used in the lower left of the Windows Explorer window. It is obscured because more than one file is selected.
the "modified" date is the local time and date when it was downloaded in this case.
This file location is at a UNC path (i.e., \\Whs\...) to a shared folder on a file server. These work fine and I don't expect any regression. – dh:2011-12-19T00:13Z
Issues/Migration

Installation from a thumb drive
Setup from a CD-ROM
- Simply as a file-system source
- As an Autorun installation
- As a gold disk with enterprise setup
Over-network enterprise installation

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This dialog first appears with a default (pre-filled destination) that is on the users desktop. This is an absurd location:
- Most users don't think of this as part of the file system (though some very naive users put everthing on their desktop).
- There is no indication of the consequences of a particular choice or whether there is some special reason for defaulting to the desktop.
- It is not cleaw whether the folder can be safely deleted without causing difficulties. At one point I found out that installing a later version would fail if the previous setup were removed, because it was needed to uninstall the previous version.
For those reasons, I have adopted the practice of putting the setup folder folders on a shared server location where I keep them for an extended period of time without cluttering my desktop.
I have let this software train me to treat this as ordinary and, while I remark on it to myself every time I do an OO.o install, I have come to install it as ordinarystep through it without question.

There's something off about this involving users in this at all. And not knowing the reason for it and the consequences of choices is unfortunate.
Dialog Elements
- The product name needs to be changed in the title line of the dialog box.
- The product name and version is mentioned twice in the instructions.
- There is an OpenOffice.org logo and gull symbol in the top heading area.
- There is a faint identifier of the Nullsoft Install System v2.37 that might need updating if not supplied automatically
- The space-available number is not exactly right, since this is a virtualized file system with over 6 TB installed drive space with 4.4 TB free. This could be what is reported by the server, though.
The setup folder is beiing placed at a UNC address and it should work well from there. Previous OO.o and LO releases operate with this just fine.
Unless the setup files do have to be retained for some future purpose, the default destination should be to a generated temporary location and no alternative should be directly requested unless there is some minimum-space-available threshhold cannot be met. It would be useful to have a way to specify where the setup goes, but as an exception and not one that has casual users deal with a dialog for which the consequences of any choice is are not understood.
It is particularly important that users not be confused into thinking that this has anything to do with where Apache OpenOffice itself will be installed.

Now the setup files are being unpacked into a place where the setup can be run.

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This is simply the process that extracts the files from the installer into a folder of all of the artifacts that are needed for setup.
It should have been easier to get here.

The dialog title strip and the top titles are essentially the same as for the previous dialog. The name and summary message have changed. It is now about Unpacking.

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