Open Office Tune-up
March 16, 2010
Some of the default memory settings for Open Office production suite are conservative, because it is designed to run on very modest machines.
If you have a fairly new computer, built in the last 5 years or so, with more than 512mb RAM and a good graphics card, here are some tips to make Open Office run noticeably quicker:
Launch the Open Office Org general control panel, or any Open Office application, select the ‘Options’ menu item.
Expand the ‘Open Office Org’ header, and select ‘Memory’
Set the number of Undo steps to something reasonable, such as 30.
Set the graphics cache to a value you’re sure your graphics subsystem can handle, such as 128
Adjust the memory per object value to 20, and
Set Cache for inserted objects to 10.
The ‘remove from memory’ value is entirely up to you. I have mine set to 10 minutes.
Some users report even faster response if Java is deactivated.
If you’d like to try this tweak, click on the ‘Java’ item in the left-hand window, and de-select ‘Use a java runtime environment
Click ‘Ok’ to save your settings and dismiss the window.
