"Click to Run" Question(s)

[BusterBean]

I hope this is the correct place for this type of question. I installed 2010 Home and Student Office on a netbook running XP several days ago, sometime last week. Today I had the need to use the netbook but every time I went to Word the program absolutely froze. It gave me the ". . . might be sluggish" excuse while not allowing me to cancel, minimize or anything other than to shut the computer down and even then I received the "unresponsive" msg leaving me only able to power off.

My question is as a one person business why would the "Click to Run" be of any particular value other than to be an irritant when one of the Office programs becomes unresponsive? I could have downloaded the program the"old-fashion" way many times over in the length of time it has taken to get this far. I certainly don't want to have this happen again. The point of being able to use the program during down load did not pan out at all so this aspect is of no use to me but maybe more so to MS in the future? From what I have read there are still issues (looking fwd to them) with some of the add-ins commonly associated with office. in other words have I talked myself into dumping Click-to-Run for the full Office?

 

[BusterBean]

What a joke, imbedding ads into a legitamite question, can you spell kick-back? Windows lap-dog.

 

[ilikefree]

Don't know what click to run is, I use open office.Never had a problem once I had installed a dictionary.

download: OpenOffice.org Downloads

 

[Tnuh555]

From my understanding, click to run downloads certain features of programs that you need and use. It might store them to a folder or a partition it makes that shows up under hard drives. (Unsure if it still stores to a partition, but I know when I had the beta, it made a Local Disk X)

This might be useful, because you wont have all the stuff you don't use taking up disk space and you could always download the features if you needed them. Office may lag out while your features are being downloaded.

Yes, office WILL be unresponsive while the features are downloading, and I don't think there is anything you can do to stop it.

Hope this helped in some way.