Libre Office 7 slow to open on fast windows 10 PC

[whistler1]

Answering my own question. I’ve had problems with LO being VERY slow to open.
It opened fine in safe mode, but when started normally I got a splash screen, then a period of 20 - 40 seconds when it stalled, and was not even showing in task manager.

Finally it opened with thumbnails of recent files. I tried deleting some that were no longer valid - and it crashed.

I didnt want to delete my user profile as there are settings that suit the way I work.

I changed the file history size from the default down to 8 following instructions here (its hardly obvious!)

Can I access a list of recent documents longer than 10 entries?

Just a simple yes or no question, really, but it’s something that piqued my interest. Bonus points if there’s a counterpart to web browsers’ History page for LO, which you can edit and clear out and have all that other functionality. Otherwise, perhaps a log exists which LO makes to keep track of documents history.

Now it opens almost instantly.

[mariosv]

Please could you look if some files not in the history now, is not accessible. To test if it could be the source of the issue.

[whistler1]

good idea, but I cant because the extended file history has been deleted. However I noticed there WERE files that were inaccessible. Trying to remove them from the history caused the crash.

[mariosv]

BTW, I think something was done lately about that. Do you have an updated version?

[whistler1]

So if you have this problem, try changing your file history size. Maybe one of the old files was causing issues, I dont know, but reducing file history did the job.

[Lupp]

Please use the tool add a comment for any post not being an answer to the original question.

[leonsarmiento]

For LibreOffice 7 on Windows 10 try:

Tools → Options → LibreOffice → View → Graphics Output

and disable “Use anti-aliasing”.

that´s it.

Long Live LibreOffice.