Performance shock (BS)

[Michael Nowag]

John Ughrin wrote:

>hmm...This doesn't match my experience, but I do have
>an interesting tidbit to add. I used to have M$Office
>_and_ OpenOffice installed on my XP. Then my HD
>crashed. New drive, new XP install, Ubuntu
>install...hmmm...I decided to experiment with just
>using OpenOffice. So far no problems, but one
>peculiarity. Without OfficeXP installed, OpenOffice
>(and almost everything else) opens much more quickly
>in XP. Whatever the overhead OfficeXP adds to enable
>its "quickloading" features must be pretty costly (at
>least on my setup).
>  
>
well...win is usually pretty fast after a fresh installation...for a
couple of weeks...take the time OO needs now and then take it again
in,say, 10 weeks :)