2008/4/28 Drew Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Guy Voets wrote: > > > 2008/4/28 M Henri Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > 2008/4/28 ccornell - OpenOffice.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dean Livingston wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > People... > > > > > > > > > > Why is OpenOffices' Writer sooo slow to open. Abi Word does not > > > > > suffer > > > > > from this. It is a fine piece of software. > > > > > Are there configuration things I should look at in OpenOffice? > > > > > Very > > > > > frustrating. Can any one help?? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There are several blog entries around that describe ways you can > > > > tweak > > > > OpenOffice.org so that it launches faster... > > > > eg: > > > > http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/08/18/how-to-speed-up-openoffice/ > > > > > > > > Note, it appears that you are not subscribed to the OpenOffice.org > > > > user > > > > mailing list, so I have CCed you. > > > > > > > > C. > > > > -- > > > > Clayton Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany > > > > > > > > > > > Clayton, what happens when one disables JRE on OOo, as suggested on > > > the > > > blog > > > to which you linked ?... > > > > > > Henri > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd say that without JRE certain things (Base!) won't work... > > > > > > > Two thoughts on this: > > One if you remove the JRE you will also disable a couple of wizards that > have nothing to do with Base ( such as the Letter Wizard for Writer ) > Two - think about it. If you have Base installed and then disable the JRE > you can use Writer and Calc and Impress and Draw without any problem ( less > the couple of wizards ) you don not have to uninstall Base - in other words > the JRE isn't loaded until you need it the first time. > > So - what did you get by disabling it? > > Just a thought. > > On the other hand increasing the memory usage settings does work, at least > it does for me. > > Drew
Just to test, I opened OOo 2.4 on my AMD X2 setup running Ubuntu Hardy ; it took something over 10 seconds to load. After implementing the procedure found on the blog to which Clayton provided a link (save that I chose to retain JRE) , I tested again : loading took some two (2) seconds. Quite a difference ! One question : what does the reduction in «Number of steps» from 100 to 30 that I realised involve - just what are these «steps» and where do they take place ?... Henri
