On Thursday 02 December 2004 17:28, John Lagrue wrote: > If the problem was anything to do with either disk transfer rates > or amount of memory then I would see my disk hammering away flat > out. But as I said in my first email, disc activity stops! So > does CPU activity. OO just sits there for 5 minutes without > displaying any window. > > Any other suggestions? > > JDL I saw another post complaining of the same symptoms in past week (your's too?). I also am running a laptop (Sony VAIO, 750MHz) and as you can see below it took about 11 seconds to load to the blank page and exit again with the command shown. 16:54:11 $ date;ooffice;date Thu Dec 2 17:28:44 CST 2004 Thu Dec 2 17:28:55 CST 2004 This time reflects the second invocation, not the first (it was near 25 seconds). I have trimmed the spell checker file and I'm using the XFce desktop if that makes a difference. Regards, Mike Klinke