Speed Up Start Time for OpenOffice.org 2.x
Time and time again I post on forums and make comments on digg and slashdot on how to speed up OpenOffice. Yet their seems to be a resounding opinion “is open office too slow” is a common inquiry whenever the application suite is brought up. In the Linux world, and for those that want a free Office suite it’s our only choice. Fortunately we can vastly improve the start time of OpenOffice.
Go to any Open Office application (Writer, Calc, Impress, Math, Draw, Base) and then proceed to the Tools Menu. At the bottom of that menu select Optoins.
Under the OpenOffice.org heading, select Memory
Now change these settings:
Undo:
Number of steps = 25
Graphics Cache
Use for OpenOffice.org = 30 MB
Memory per Object = 2.0 MB
Remove from memory after 00:05 hh:mm
Cache for inserted Objects
Number of Object = 15
OpenOffice.org Quickstarter (check this box)
Once the quick starter is loaded be sure to load OpenOffice from the quick starter and it should open any of the apps immediately. If the quickstart is not loaded, your load time still should be significantly increased.
And there you go, a faster OpenOffice.
