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Hi Roger...
I´ve had same problems..... but I had downloaded the 90-days evalution
of StarOffice 8, Product Update Five, and used it... And suddenly I´ve
got a CPU running madly at least 90 % usage... sometimes higher....
the tree finger salute.. (CTRL+ALT+Delete) was the only solution...
killing the process soffice.bin was my way out of this problem. In my
world I thought this was a problem related to SO 8.
I uninstalled SO8 and then I found OOo 2.2 sr3 on the net.. downloaded
it and up till today, there is no such usage of the CPU....
I have 512 Mb RAM, 2.0 Ghz CPU, running WIN XP Home SR2.
I also have MS Office 2002 on my machine... never such a problem......
runs like a clock.... it´s true...
:-)
as one other guy suggested....
.......................
Do you have sufficient memory on the machine? I found that going from
512M RAM to 1G made a huge difference in getting rid of swapping
problems.
.......................
I don´t think it´s the problem....
:-\ silly that 512 isn´t enough... it´s just a
officesuite, and you don´t run the whole package... just Writer....
let´s see what solutions they found on this problem....
Best Regards
// Per
Roger Pye skrev:
I have
used Open Office on my home system for a number of years and about 2
months ago downloaded V 2.1 to upgrade V 2.0. I realised about 3 weeks
after the download it was not an upgrade as such but a whole new
program. As soon as I began using OO Writer (effectively the same day
as the download) it would run OK for about 30 mins and then my CPU
would go to 100% usage and the whole system would lock up (forcing a
crash). Usually I was running a number of other software programs as
well as Windows XP Home Edition at the same time - these included
Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, Paint Shop Pro. I had never had any
trouble with Writer before.
I tried a number of solutions none of which worked. They included
uninstalling 2.1 and reinstalling it. It was at that point I discovered
that most of 2.0 was still in a folder in Program Files on C drive; I
deleted it. I tracked the conflict to Firefox (and on occasion I think
Thunderbird as well) by running Writer with individual programs and
noting the result.
A typical sequence would be as follows:
Firefox would be running;
I would open Writer;
Within 30 minutes regardless of what I was doing (whether working in
Writer or browsing), Writer would 'blow out' to near 100% CPU usage and
stay there;
(If I was working with more than one document in Writer it wouldn't
take 30 minutes!).
The system would lock up. If I was lucky I would be able to close
Writer, the CPU usage would drop to 4%. For 90% of the time I wasn't
lucky.
The first time it happened the system crashed so severely it took me
three days and professional help to get the system working properly
again.
By this morning I had had enough. I uninstalled Open Office 2.1,
deleted the folder in Program Files, and reinstalled OO 2.0. I have had
no trouble since nor do I expect any.
In terms of computer experience I am not a newbie. I have about 20
years usage under my belt - I was a system manager in the RAAF with the
first NCR Towers in the late 1980s and have kept reasonably up-to-date
ever since. However I don't know much about the back end of modern
windows and other programs. Possibly the problem is with my system but
I don't think so. System details are:
Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.00 GHz, 2.02 GHz, 768 Mb RAM
OS Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP2
Currently I am also network administrator of a non-government
not-for-profit organisation and we are considering installing Open
Office on our 10 systems in place of (currently) MS Office. However we
can't take this step if there is a chance of conflict.
Cheers
Roger Pye
Canberra Australia
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