[ILUG] OpenOffice

[Barry O'Donovan]

On Wed 14 Jan 2004 12:54, Kevin Philp wrote:
> We use OpenOffice all day every day here, latest 1.1 version. It just
> seems to have got slower. On my machine (AMD XP2000 with 512MB) it
> takes 3 seconds to load the first screen and another 12 seconds to
> open a new, blank text documents. I seem to remember it being quicker
> or is it just my imagination? As anyone any experience of OpenOffice
> slowing down with time?

I havn't experienced it slowing down but, than again, I wouldn't use it 
that often. You could try OpenOffice.org Quickstarter - it's a KDE 
applet that loads a copy of OOo into memory when KDE starts up and any 
time you need to run OOo it appears to be "lightning fast".

http://freshmeat.net/projects/oooqs/

I think there is a version for Windoze and Gnome (but I *think* the 
Gnome version might just provide a system tray short cut as opposed to 
preloading a copy to memory).

Regards,
B.


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