Comment 21 for bug 592176

I have installed LO 3.4.3 on some very old PCs (P3, 500 MHz, 512 MB RAM) running Windows XP.
When starting up, it takes about 1:20 minutes for the application to start. Once LO is up and running, it runs quite well. Even opening new documents via the quickstarter only takes seconds but is not an option (see Bug No. 41229 about that). We also tried to improve startup by disabling the JRE but this only brought us some 5 seconds (btw. Oracle JRE6_27 is installed).

The system is very optimized so there are no unnecessary jobs running in the back. System memory is almost free after windows startup. Almost no hard disc activity can be seen while starting LO, but the job runs at 99% CPU. Only in the last 10 seconds you can hear the HDD work heavily but this might be because some binaries are loaded late. This makes me think that this is _not_ a problem of low memory and swapping (and even if the HDD activity was because of swapping, this would only explain the last 10-20 seconds of the slow startup).
There must be some way to improve the startup procedure, maybe by offering an alternative setup that does not load so many extensions/tool/translations or similar additions.

We only have these very old PCs because this is a ground school with no almost no budget for the pupils PCs. Also, I think many educational projects in developing or third world countries have a similar problem (very old hardware) and deserve a bearable fast launching office solution.