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echo: osdebate
to: Robert Comer
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2006-05-30 13:43:42
subject: Re: OO.org 2.x Quicstarter

From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Yep - I really hate that  many apps just install a starter without asking.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:447c7976$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>I never let things like quickstarter run if I can help it...
>
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> Bob Comer
>
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> "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
> news:447c73bb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Pardon me if I interrupt the comforting flow of advocacy and religious
>> opsys preference here, but... (g)....
>>
>> Anyone else find the Quickstarter in OO.org 2.0 Win positively poisonous
>> to your video?  I've now encountered my third machine where, eventually,
>> every app gets a sort of St. Vitus' dance, as though some robot were
>> hitting a half-page up or down key, 5 or ten times a second.  This
>> generally happens in a browser first, then spreads to any GUI app window
>> open on the desktop that has a v-scrollbar and the focus.  You don't even
>> have to have used an Open Office app since boot.  Reboot or re-login
>> fixes it for a while.  Removing the Quickstart loader app from Hkey Run
>> fixes it permanently.
>>
>> The latest was a Thinkpad x60, Intel 945G integrated video. All three
>> instances were on very low-video-horsepower, vanilla business machines,
>> all on XP.
>
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