On Fri September 29 2006 08:52, + Ross Martin wrote: > Hi, > > So I am otherwise very appreciative of your product, especially since it is > free. It is in most ways has all the features I want and they are easy to > find. The main complaint I have had is the complexity by which one adds > page numbers -- two steps are involved, first adding a footer and then > adding the page number. I wish there were one single option under "Insert" > that said "Add Page Numbers", and then had a little menu for it. > > Anyway, that's not what I am writing about. I work on a Dell Inspiron > 1200, with an Intel Celeron processor and 512 mb of RAM. I use Windows XP. > I don't know how useful that information is to you. > > Of late, something utterly terrible starts happening. The computer starts > "thinking" (the little green light turns on or flashes, and something is > loading internally). When this happens, OpenOffice shows up as "not > responding". Invariably it returns to the land of the living. Before, > this took only a little while to happen. Now it is taking longer and > longer, and is happening more frequently. Sometimes when I am typing in > Writer, brief little blips happen, such that what I have typed registers > later (it writes it all out slowly, or adds it when it comes back). Other > times, it gets started "thinking" and only comes back a minute or two > later. Only one has it actually crashed. > > This would happen in Mozilla, but for much shorter periods, and anyway, > it's gone away now. > > I don't know what the problem is. I figured that parts of the program were > in different places on my hard drive and the program had to go an access > them, so I defragmented the hard drive. Nothing. My brother told me that > XP will use a bit of RAM, then "mark" it as used (i.e., in use), and not > use it again. He said therefore that I need to restart my computer often. > This seems like a possible answer. I don't turn my computer off, and Java > is continually using RAM (I think?). I guess these problems don't happen > as much right when I turn on my computer. I'm not sure. > > Anyway, I wanted to tell you about this. It's driving me absolutely up the > wall, and I have a masters thesis to write.
Hi Ross, OpenOffice.org uses very little java. When this problem happens again, start the taskmanager and see which process is using most of the CPU. I suspect that it may be the indexing which XP has turned on automatically. Please reply to [email protected] only -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
