Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

Hi :)
Sounds like her machine was just being a bit slow.  If that is Windows then perhaps defrag, "Disk 
Clean-up", perhaps uninstall the 2nd and 3rd antivirus program.  Watch out for auto-scans and 
defrags.  Empty the wastebin and the wastebin of the emailing program she uses.  Windows 
performance seems to suddenly drop off if the 'drive' is over 80% full.  If the defragger shows 21% 
free space then that is about as good as it gets unless you can get it right down to almost nothing 
on the hard-drive (unlikely) when there seems to be another slight boost in performance.  Set the 
virtual memory to a fixed size about 2xRam or a little less, anything over Ram but below 2xRam is 
about perfect.  The virtual memory is probably heavily fragmented as it's been randomly changing 
size and throwing bits of itself all over the drive.  Setting it to a fixed size stops it getting 
worse.  The standard Windows defragger can't do system-files, such as the virtual
 memory ("pagefile.sys" on Xp and earlier), which are usually the ones that make the biggest 
difference.  Hmmm, ideally a reinstall of Windows and then set the virtual memory might be best but 
it takes a LOT of time to install all the other programs and tweak and update everything.  Maybe LO 
took her just over the 80%?

On pretty much any OS check what processes start-up when the machine is booted up and when 
scheduled tasks are due to run.  I tend to switch all that off (or at least the bits i know how to 
do myself, such as defrags, updates and antivirus-scans) and then try to remember to do maintenance 
tasks at a time to suit myself.    

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Thu, 16/2/12, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working
To: "LibreO - Users Global" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Date: Thursday, 16 February, 2012, 12:36

I loaded 3.4.5 onto a Win7 [64-bit] laptop yesterday at a meeting for a lady.  She wanted to use LO 
to type up the notes of the meeting right there.

But after she saved the document, she clicked on the spell check icon and the windows came up empty 
with a "not responding" text in the "pop up window" name.

Anyone have that problem with a newer HP laptop?

Any idea how to fix this?

I did not have the time to try to work with her to figure out what the issue was, but I hope to get 
with her soon to fix the problem and add more free software to her brand new laptop.



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