[CLUE-Talk] Re: [CLUE-Tech] MS Office on Linux -- would you?

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 02-19 10:07, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> 
> >You are in luck. One of the reasons why OO loads slowly is that it loads 
> >when YOU request it. With MS Office, it preloads it when MS decides. They 
> >decided for purpose of speed that it will load in upon boot up. That means 
> >it occupies about 256M of your ram doing nothing until you start using it.
> > 
> >
> Actually, when I had MS Office, I deleted the Run (on boot) and Startup 
> items for Office.  It didn't make much difference, so I don't even know 
> why they're there except probably so Office will load quickly enough on 
> slower computers (not that mine is fast).

Can you say more about this? Where is this option? During install? Some
buried registry setting? I'd like to turn this off, even though I don't
think anything is sitting around taking 256M of RAM on my box. Granted, even
vanilla W2K takes about 60-70M, and that's too much...but it's certainly not
256. Which version of Office are you guys talking about?

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