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wine and office 97

May 9, 2005 12:36AM PDT

Hi,
I installed mandrake 10.1 from a dvd i d/led and while everything works i installed ms office 97 through wine and it is very slow to load taking about 5 mins to get into word etc does anyone know if it possible to get it to load faster i just used the defaults that were on offer

amd k62 500
nvidia Geforce2 200/400 with 32mb mem
512mb memory
80gb hdd

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(NT) Hint: Open Office.
May 9, 2005 12:46AM PDT
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Easy answer...
May 11, 2005 1:48AM PDT

Well, you probably aren't going to get much better. You are running a low end machine and trying to use an emulator to let a Windows program think it's running in Windows. You usually have a huge performance hit when using any type of emulator. Consider yourself lucky that it works at all.

Finally, Depending on what you're needing. You may want to try AbiWord, a small word processor that can read/write .doc files for MS-Office. If you need a fuller-functioning 99% MS-Office compatible solution, then download OpenOffice. Either of these will be faster than loading MS-Office via Wine. Be warned though, OpenOffice is a beast of a program and it too will take a while to load on your machine.

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This is much better.
May 11, 2005 10:47AM PDT

You probably know about the alternatives and still want to use MS OFFICE 97. The way I will tell you will most likely help you a great deal.

FIRST:

Visit winehq.com
Click the download link
Click on wine tools
Download the RECCOMENDED version of Wine (trust me)
Download Winetools

SECOND:

Remove the version of Wine installed
Install the version you downloaded
Install Winetools and go through configuration proccess
Use Winetools to install Office 97.

LAST:

Il est fini.

(It is done) [FRENCH]