Slow launch times on Windows 7

[wayne durden]

Seems like this came up recently and someone on the list reported that
updating the graphics drivers fixed this?  I could be mistaken ....

Wayne


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:14 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> A customer has contacted tech support about an issue we can't solve, so I'd
> like to know if anyone else here has experienced it and what they did to fix
> it.
>
> The problem is very slow launch times of standalones on Windows 7, of up to
> a minute or more. It doesn't happen on any earlier versions of Windows.
>
> We had one other customer report the same thing, but it only occured on a
> small number of his Windows customer machines, and he solved it by
> reinstalling Win7 on those machines. His theory was that the Dells shipped
> with some setting that a reinstall changed. A Google query shows that lots
> of people are having similar slow launch problems on Win7 with other apps as
> well, so it isn't just a Rev problem. Many report that defragging the hard
> drive fixes it, but in this customer's case it did not. The customer says if
> he reduces the file size by removing all substacks, launch times improve --
> which would seem to support the defrag theory (fewer bytes to find,) but it
> didn't work for him. He is not running a virus scanner that would interfere.
>
> Has anyone else encountered the problem? Were you able to solve it?
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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