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From: "Antti Kurenniemi"
"Brian Hall" wrote in message
news:3f4b104d{at}w3.nls.net...
> Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
>
> > I kinda like it, but it has one big problem: it's reaaaally slooooowww.
I've
> > got a whopping 800Mhz system, and it takes up to about half a minute or
more
> > to start any of the OO apps, while Word pops up in (testing) about 3
> > seconds. Strange, and strangely annoying. I would have thought that it
> > wouldn't bother me so much, but it does.
>
> Word is probably preloading at boot time taking some memory
> that could be used for other things.
I've disabled the office starter thingie ;-)
> I don't consider load time to be a big deal.
I don't either, but I find myself strangely annoyed whenever I have to wait
for more than 2.7 seconds for anything in my computer .
> I did notice that v1.1 of OpenOffice opens faster than 1.0.
I haven't used 1.1, but this sounds good.
Antti Kurenniemi
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