2010/1/21 Michael Adams : > On Thursday 21 January 2010 20:09, Prakash Karra wrote: >> Sir, I have downloaded and installed the Open Office; it seems to work >> fine. However, I find that its extremely slow to open a blank page or a >> down loaded document, it takes unusually long time.. Secondly, a saved >> document (to desk top) when the PC is started does not open, a message >> box, that the said doc. is to be retrieved and a command to retrieve often >> results in failure.. why is that? I had several docs. ,already saved in >> M.S.Office 2000 Word & excel format, which carry the Open Office icon, >> which I presume means that these docs. are already in Open Office ready to >> open format, but do not open readily; it takes 3 -- 4 minutes to read >> these documents.. Can you please guide me to speed up opening of several >> docs. like spread sheet sheets, & blank documents, etc. a little more fast? >> For your information I use a LAN cable with a connection speed of 1 Mb. I >> look for forward for your advice. > > OpenOffice.org latest versions are designed to run best on recent computers > with lots of speed, space and memory. If you have an older computer and you > wish more speed, trading off some less common features, legacy copies of the > program are available. > http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors > Example: > ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/openoffice/stable > > A recent computer with poor memory, slow processor, small or full pagefile, or > other runaway processes could also cause this issue. For instance Nod32 is > known to thrash older computers on start-up slowing everything else. > > -- > Michael Adams > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
The question here is What is exactly poor memory, slow processor or old computer? What is slow or fast to open? I have a Celeron 550MHz with 320MBs of ram and works fine. It's a little more slow than previous version but nothing annoying. The same machine with 384MBs of ram, and OpenOffice works good. And we are not talking about super-computer. But I use Debian Squeeze. May be Operating System it's important too. May be it's personal views, I found it fine but he found it slow. Just I left the question to think in it. Regards Sylvia --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
