Speeding up OpenOffice load times

Cope57 · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 2:30 pm Post subject: Speeding up OpenOffice load times

If you're an Open Office user, you've undoubtedly encountered the open source office suite's painstaking slow load up times.
This is a small tutorial to speed things up.

Start Open Office and click on Tools > Options.
This should open the configuration.
Click on Memory in the left menu and change the following settings:

Number of Steps: 30
Use for Open Office: 128
Memory per Object: 20
Number of Objects: 20

This will give you the most increase in load times.
There are other options to further increase the speed by enabling the Quickstarter.
This is not required, but it helps a little.

Yet another step to speed up the load times is to disable the Java functionality. Some people may frown upon this, as they need the Java function, but that is OK, you have already increased the load speed as much as you can then, no need to proceed further if you need the Java function.

But if you do not need the Java function, proceed to the Java section in the menu.

Now all you have to do is disable it, hit [OK] at the bottom and you are done!

reboot the application to see the results.
NOTE: You are using Linux, no need to reboot the PC! Wink

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mmmna · . . . . Joined: 21 Apr 2025 Posts: 7224

Thanks, Cope57!

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tlmiller · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:06 pm Post subject:

Thanks!! I'll have to try this and compare tonight when I get back home.

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lberg · Sr. Member Joined: 28 Jul 2025 Posts: 1289

Wow! I can tell a difference. Thanks for posting.

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crouse · Site Admin Joined: 17 Apr 2025 Posts: 11833 Location: Iowa

A very noticeable improvement in load time.

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tlmiller · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:30 pm Post subject:

Yeah, nearly instantaneous on this particular machine now (the pentium dual core e2200).

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JP · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:14 am Post subject:

I didn't find quickstarter, but everything else was right where you said it would be, and my OO is working much faster Very Happy

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tlmiller · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:32 am Post subject:

In order to have the quickstarter (in debian at least), you need the package openoffice.org-gtk. Don't worry about it, the quickstarters not worth it.

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JP · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 3:23 am Post subject:

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OH yeah! That's a whole lot better! Thanks! Smile

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platinummonkey · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 5:16 am Post subject:

wow, i had modified those myself a long time ago, but not with those numbers, those really did the trick! thx!! Very Happy

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mr_ed · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:53 pm Post subject:

Well, I modified mine, and ... well I'll see!

Thanks cope!

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richard · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 3:48 pm Post subject:

Just modified mine and cannot believe how much of a difference they have made to the start up times.

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Cope57 · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:26 am Post subject:

I am glad everybody likes the small tweaks. As for the Quickstarter icon, it did not change the speed at all, it basically just places a icon in the panel for easier access to your OpenOffice program, something like the quicklaunch for M$. You would be better off creating a icon on the desktop for the part of OpenOffice you use most... Writer, calc, and so on.

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