On the other side of the coin, I'm having no problems.
I run Firefox (was 1.5.9, now 2.?0.3) at work, Windows XP of some flavour, and
OOo 2.1 I typically have running (all at the same time) radmin, OOo Calc and
Writer, emacs, Firefox, Thunderbird, Micro$**t Word and Excel and sometimes
Access, and an Apache web server besides all the background tasks that XP needs
to stumble through the real world. Have never had a problem.
I reboot whenever system response gets too bad (every few months or so; one out
of that list has a memory leak and eventually it comsumes all available memory.
Do you have sufficient memory on the machine? I found that going from 512M
RAM to 1G made a huge difference in getting rid of swapping problems. And it
only cost $130; best investment I ever make is in RAM. And I believe I left 2.0
still installed, I just don't use it.
HTH,
Donald.
Roger Pye wrote:
I have used Open Office on my home system for a number of years and
about 2 months ago downloaded V 2.1 to upgrade V 2.0. I realised about 3
weeks after the download it was not an upgrade as such but a whole new
program. As soon as I began using OO Writer (effectively the same day as
the download) it would run OK for about 30 mins and then my CPU would go
to 100% usage and the whole system would lock up (forcing a crash).
Usually I was running a number of other software programs as well as
Windows XP Home Edition at the same time - these included Mozilla
Firefox, Thunderbird, Paint Shop Pro. I had never had any trouble with
Writer before.
I tried a number of solutions none of which worked. They included
uninstalling 2.1 and reinstalling it. It was at that point I discovered
that most of 2.0 was still in a folder in Program Files on C drive; I
deleted it. I tracked the conflict to Firefox (and on occasion I think
Thunderbird as well) by running Writer with individual programs and
noting the result.
A typical sequence would be as follows:
Firefox would be running;
I would open Writer;
Within 30 minutes regardless of what I was doing (whether working in
Writer or browsing), Writer would 'blow out' to near 100% CPU usage and
stay there;
(If I was working with more than one document in Writer it wouldn't take
30 minutes!).
The system would lock up. If I was lucky I would be able to close
Writer, the CPU usage would drop to 4%. For 90% of the time I wasn't lucky.
The first time it happened the system crashed so severely it took me
three days and professional help to get the system working properly again.
By this morning I had had enough. I uninstalled Open Office 2.1, deleted
the folder in Program Files, and reinstalled OO 2.0. I have had no
trouble since nor do I expect any.
In terms of computer experience I am not a newbie. I have about 20 years
usage under my belt - I was a system manager in the RAAF with the first
NCR Towers in the late 1980s and have kept reasonably up-to-date ever
since. However I don't know much about the back end of modern windows
and other programs. Possibly the problem is with my system but I don't
think so. System details are:
Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.00 GHz, 2.02 GHz, 768 Mb RAM
OS Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP2
Currently I am also network administrator of a non-government
not-for-profit organisation and we are considering installing Open
Office on our 10 systems in place of (currently) MS Office. However we
can't take this step if there is a chance of conflict.
Cheers
Roger Pye
Canberra Australia
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