[pchelpers] Re: SOffice at shutdown (Linz)
- From: Lindsay <judenlinz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PC-Helpers <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:19:44 +1300
Simply EG, I didn't want it on my Windows PC. I seldom if ever use a
word processor anymore and I am satisfied with my current one. I have
tinkers with OpenOffice and it is on my Ubuntu PC, but I wont have a use
for it there either. Abiword is easier to use and less resource
intensive.
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 09:42 +0200, Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote:
> Hi Linz
>
> Instead of uninstalling the best office suite and word processor just
> because you had a setting that made it start up automatically, you could
> have disabled the automatic startup and tried the program out. It's not
> like this was spyware or a malicious program :-)
>
> Ask your Linux friends why on earth their distro makes OpenOffice start
> up automatically. That's very annoying and not something that will
> invite people to try out this great alternative to the buggy Microsoft
> Office and Word.
>
> Ek
>
> > It was in Add/Remove programs, so I removed. It hasn't seemed to have
> > given me any resources back though.
> >
> >
> >>It's in the Startup folder, as I recall. If all else fails, MSCONFIG
> >>should still work.
>
>
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