Too slow!

slashjx · General User Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Russia

OOo works too slow on the old computers & notebooks. I have 400 Mz notebook & OOo works very slow. May be they have some way to speed it up??? Sometimes i have to wait for 20 seconds to open new document... It drives me crazy! I can wait! Very Happy

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The Liquidator · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject:

Hi

What OS and what version of OOo are you using?

Also, what Ram does the machine have?

Ian

slashjx · General User Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Russia

I'm using Windows XP, OOo version 1.1.4 (i think the last version, but not last beta version)

My notebook has got 320 Mb of Ram...
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Fortinbras · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject:

Here is how to reduce OOo start-up speed and loading times dramatically:

When you start up OOo or open any OOo-document, OOo always tries to contact your default printer, which takes quite some time because it will take precious seconds communicating with the printer.

Solution: in Windows XP, I've set 'Fax' as the default printer. Now the start-up speed is much faster. Of course, if I want to print a document, I must select my printer manually....

Starting OOo for the first time now takes 13 seconds (on my high end portable), from then on opening a document is instantanious.
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The Liquidator · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject:

Ok

You have to bear in mind, of course, that when you load OOo you load the entire suite so on your hardware that wil seem a long time. You can "lighten the load" a bit I suppose by running the OOo setup and slecting modify and removing modules you don't use.

However, your biggest issue I think is that you are running Win XP on a 4oomhz machine. I suspect your problem probably has more to do with that thn anything else.

Ian

slashjx · General User Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Russia

Thank you, but you know, windows XP works fine on this machine... These tips helped me... Thank you! Somethimes it's working slow, sometimes not, but anyway thank you!
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kieranmullen · General User Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

I agree. You should stick with windows 98SE. Also you dont have a whole lot of ram either. What free memory do you have? You could be swapping it out alot onto the hard drive which really slows things down.

Kieran Mullen

myles · Newbie Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 1

The solution to change your default printer works perfectly. My OpenOffice installation was running fine once started, but it was too slow to start up. I have a Athlon 2600+ (1.91MHz) with 1.00 GB of RAM (2x512). Even with the command "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.1.4\program\quickstart.exe" in my "startup" directory, it would still take either 32 seconds or 22 seconds to start when I had no existing OO windows open. Only occassionally did a new window open as soon I clicked on a Writer or Calc icon. Waiting that long was intolerable! Then I read this thread, tried the solution, and felt like I had just lost 15 pounds in a day while eating ice cream and having my feet up on the desk.

My default printer is one that is networked and often isn't really there. I changed my default printer to a PDFwriter (or fax would work just as well). Now, any time I click on a OO icon when there are no OO windows already running, a new window appears ready to use within less than 1 second.