On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Lewis wrote: > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 06:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Thankyou for that information and do you think a lap top has enough > > memory for it? is it a big program? after having to send it back > > for a new hard drive when I don't use it a lot I am so afraid of > > messing it up. Also will the spell checker work with outlook > > express? as I don't know how to get Outlook. > > > > Thank you for your patience. > > Carol Wonfor > > If your computer is only a few months old, it should have enough > memory. However, you did not say how much RAM (memory) your laptop > has. On Windows XP Home, OOo will run on 256 MB of RAM, but 512 MB > would be better. > As far an email client, Mozilla's Thunderbird seems to work quite > well on Windows XP and it has its own spellchecker. It possibly has > other abilities that OE does not. Howver, if you want to stick with > OE, there are very inexpensive programs available on the Internet > which will work as an OE spellchecker. > Thunderbird is available at www.mozilla.org, and it is a free > download. > > Dan
By coincidence I upgraded an 8 year old laptop for a for a friend yesterday. This laptop has a Pentiumm III 600MHz CPU, 256Mb RAM and a 10Gb HDD, running Windows XP Home. In addition to other software, I installed OOo 2.1 with Java JRE and Mozilla Thunderbird (replacement for Outlook Express). After installing all this software there is still 6Gb of free space left on the HDD and OOo runs very smoothly. I am sure the specification for your laptop will be at least as good, if not better, than my friend's laptop, so you can be confident that OOo will not cause any problems for your computer. I would strongly support Dan's recommendation to install and use Thunderbird as an alternative to Outlook Express. I hope this helps to allay some of your concerns. Dave Please reply to users@openoffice.org only. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
