James E. Lang wrote: > What is the purpose of Quickstarter and how does it work? Can I > configure OpenOffice.org on Windows to suppress Quickstart? How can I > measure Quickstart's beneficial impact? > > I ask these questions because when I use OOo on Windows to process > documents on a USB stick drive I cannot safely remove the stick drive > without first terminating Quickstarter. I see no value in retaining an > open state for a document after it is closed by the user either by > Close or Exit. I use both writer and calc. I mostly use them on Linux > but on occasion I must use Windows. > > I waited the other day for over five minutes for the ability to remove > the memory stick before it dawned on me that Quickstarter might be > holding things up. I was blaming the relatively slow computer and > Windows 2000. Now I believe the bottleneck to have been Quickstarter. > The quickstarter provides faster opening of OpenOffice, by loading part of it into memory at boot up. You can easily turn it off, by right clicking on the icon and selecting close. You can also turn it off permanently, in Options. However, I'm surprised you have to turn it off, as I've often used pen drives and never had to turn off the quickstarter. Thiis was in Linux and XP though, not 2000.
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