On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:42 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:43 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > > > >>Mike McCarty wrote: > >> > >> > >>>from its local disc. I just clicked on the "OpenOffice.org > >>>Writer Word processor" icon on the task bar at the bottom > >>>of my screen, and it was 58 seconds before it was ready > >>>to take a keystroke, on my 2.71 GHz Linux machine. On my > >>>400MHz Win98 machine, Word loads in less than 5 secs. > >> > > LOL. And windows98 with the corresponding Word is much smaller than > > the current Word or OOo. > > > > Also, I am interested in how you forced OO to take that long to load. > > Mine takes <10 seconds to load OOo 2.X from click to typing. > > I didn't force it. It's a (painful) fact of life for me. In fact, > when I browse the web, I often don't look at a document if it's > .doc format just because OO will take so long to load. One suggestion, a while back openoffice on my laptop was taking a long time to load. I tracked the problem down to the dictionary system which was loading a number of languages which I did not need or want. I believe I found a message on this list which detailed how to disable all languages except the one I used. This dramatically improved the load time of the application.
