XPost: microsoft.public.word.newusers   
   From: Sh@dow.br   
      
   On Wed, 25 May 2016 04:05:57 +0700, JJ  wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 24 May 2016 19:37:21 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> I installed MS Office 2003 on my computer the other day, and since   
   >> then it seems to run a lot slower, and it takes 20-30 minutes to boot   
   >> instead of the usual 7 (Windows XP)*   
   >   
   >In my old system (1.6GHz 2-cores, 2GB RAM), it took about 2 minutes to boot.   
   >A 7 minutes boot seems a lot is going on, or the PC or HDD is just slow.   
   >   
   >- Office 2003 minimum RAM is 1GB. If you only have 2GB of RAM and using more   
   >than 500MB after boot up before Office 2003 is installed, it's likely that   
   >you now have very little memory space left for applications.   
      
   	I have a single core 1.6GHz with 1 GB RAM. XP takes under 2   
   minutes to boot, and that's because of a bat file that waits to load   
   my DNS server after my firewall is up.   
   	The latest LibreOffice takes 25 seconds. Just timed it. And   
   no, it's not "pre-loaded".   
   	Firefox 17  ---> 6 seconds.   
   	I must be doing something wrong.   
   	[]'s   
      
   	30 minutes to boot ? Either it's a 486 or you have malware   
   installed.   
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