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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