Alan, thank you for the tip. I use 4.1.1 on an old Dell Latitude D600, running XP. I have 2 gigs of memory installed (board maximum). The CPU is a now ancient Pentium, 1600 Mhz.
It takes a LONG time to boot up. In OO 4.1.1, when I access Tools>Options>Memory and look at the QuickStarter dialog in the right hand panel, it provides a box to check or not check which has a legend next to it regarding loading OO at system start up. Given the slow system start up I have any way, I'm not so sure this is really a "Quick Start" for me. Is there something else I am missing which would give a quicker start up for OO? I can see the argument that starting OO once only at the start of a session on the old laptop may be somewhat time saving when compared to starting and closing OO several times during a session, but I don't see a really faster initialization of OO. All I see is a shift of when the slow OO loading takes place. Thoughts, comments, additional tips on the slow OO initialization issue Alan, anyone? Thank you. On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Alan B <abo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Pasha Gmail <pasha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Please advise, which Open Office version I need to download from OO site > to > > get best performance for Old computers and Netbooks with slow disks and > > based on Windows XP OS. > > > > Pasha, if you don't have a requirement for Windows my suggestion would be > switch to Elementary OS, https://elementary.io/. It's a Linux distribution > built with a focus on fast performance. I'm using it with AOO latest > version on 5 year old laptop (Pentium T4500 @ 2.3GHz and 4 GB RAM) with > very good performance. > > > > I had very unpleasant experience when Just start of any program from > > the ОО package > > took 1-3 minutes at my Samsung Netbook. Next start was normal, just > > seconds, but first – it was something! I used the program couple years > ago. > > Maybe some optimization was done since then? Which version would you > > recommend for XP ? > > > > To improve AOO start time make sure the OpenOffice Quickstarter is enabled. > Find that by Tools > Options > OpenOffice > Memory and tick the "Enable > systray Quickstarter" item. > > Since you describe slow start on first opening any program and normal > starts thereafter I expect you will find Quickstarter is not enabled. >
