Windows Admin vs Standard Users - App startup times
Bob Sneidar
bobs at twft.com
Tue Feb 7 13:24:24 EST 2012
I just found this by googling. It may help and it may not:
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/how-to-make-old-programs-work-on-windows-7-922313
Bob
On Feb 7, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote:
> I did think it might be a cache, but not in this case.
>
> If I restart the computer, log in as the standard user then right click and start the app in administrator mode it starts immediately. If I then close the app and re-launch it using the normal double click it takes forever to load, so it doesnt look like a cache, its genuinely a LOT faster when an app is started with admin rights, or slower when run as a standard user.
>
> It should be a really simple test as the most basic of livecode apps do it for me on all my three Windows computers.
>
> In admin mode, on a mac or linux everything is fast, but on a standard user account on Windows 7 there is a definite, and substantial start delay!
>
> I was hoping it might be something simple, but maybe not.
>
> Andy
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