Windows 10: Strange behavior discovered in LibreOffice and hopefully fixed

Hi, folks, one thing gave me lots of headaches last week.

It is about LibreOffice program, which is opening the spread sheet and draw files extremely slow. Task manager says that LO is not responding for a few seconds and then after 20 or even more seconds, the file is finally opened.
I have read a lot for this problem, which turned to be common. Somebody wrote on another forum, that that's connected to the printer. I decided to try to uninstall the HP Smart app /dedicated for HP printers/ and voila, now all files associated with LO are back to normal. Will stuck with the built-in Microsoft printer driver.

What is exactly the reason, with 20H2 and latest updates of OS and LO, not heavy LO files, will remain a mistery for me.

What do you think, any thoughts?

Hope that this info could help other folks in this forum.

:)

 

Strange led behavior and more in 5800

YES!

Only yesterday I discovered that my daughter used brightlight (the torch) ... under the rain! This happened a couple of days before the strange behavior begun !!



I'm sorry I wasted your time (and mine too ...), but I didn't know this fact when I posted previous messages!



Thanks to everybody!

 

Strange behavior

Hi Bart,

Your user profile might be corrupted that's why Windows indicated that you're not connected to the internet even though you are. Let's try to create a new user profile, and check if issue persists. Kindly follow the steps provided in this support article:

• Fix a corrupted user profile in Windows 7

Let us know the outcome of the troubleshooting procedure so we can assist you further.

 

Strange behavior of the Start menu

You can add shortcuts in the start menu, alphabetical list, by adding them in the old start menu location. What is strange is that if you add several shortcuts to the same program with different parameters, only one appears on the list, why ? No idea. Anyway
it appears with the right icon, the one defined by the shortcut. If this entry list is pinned to the start screen, it appears with the icon of the exe file, not the one of the shortcut. Second strange behavior. I regret all this. The start menu of W10 lost
something very important in the W7 and previous versions. The ability to create a hierarchical menu : one for internet, one for multimedia, one for office programs etc… The actual start menu is a real mess compared to what could be done in W7. This can be
partly solved by the start screen : it’s possible to create folders, one for internet, one for multimedia ad so on, and the folders can contain pinned tiles to the right programs. Anyway, its’ completely impossible to create several shortcuts to the same program.
For example one for starting the browser to one a website, one for starting it to another website and so on. Personally, I solve this by using an alternate shell able to manage several shortcuts to the same program… and to choose the icon. Anyway, this behavior
of the start menu remains very strange, and makes the start menu of W10 less usable than the ones of the previous versions of windows (not W8 of course which was a complete failure).