Server startup time problem

[sbudrez]

I don't know if this is the correct forum to post my problem, but i haven't find a proper place to do it

I have downloaded & installed alfresco community edition 3.2
When i select "start alfresco server" (i am using windows xp if it does matter), a window called "MySQL" and one called "Tomcat" are opened.
Then it takes a loooong time before the server starts (i am talking about 20 minutes, or as the tomacat windows says, at least 1 milion milliseconds). Seeing the time progression in the window, it take about 15 minutes on the line "[alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] The OpenOffice connection was re-established"
It's a normal thing or it's just a porblem of mine?
I can't really wait 20 minutes every time i start my pc to use alfresco =(

[mrogers]

20 minutes is too long.   But alfresco can take a while to start, especially the first time when its configuring the database.

It sounds like you have a networking issue or other problem connecting to open office.      If you remove 15 minutes waiting to contact open office.   Then five minutes or so, although bad, is not unexpected.

[sbudrez]

Thanks for the answer!
Well if i can reduce the time from 20 to 5 minutes it will be more than acceptable
But i have absolutely no idea about where's the problem and how to resolve it. The first time I've tried to install alfresco i hadn't installed openoffice, but the problem was the same. I thought it was because i hadn't openoffice, so I installed it, but no progress was made.
Any idea?

[sbudrez]

It seems I've found the solution!
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21806