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When I startup XYPlorer after bootup it takes ages to load 30-45 seconds, and the hard drive sounds like its being thrashed to an inch of its life. If I then close and reopen XY later it opens in a flash. Have I overlooked anything thats causing this. Its on a win7 Home P 32bit with 4 gb ram. QDIR which I also use occasionaly always starts instantly. Thank you

Ctrl + leftclick on "Various Information" in the "Help" menu.

Post a screenshot of it.

rippercod wrote:When I startup XYPlorer after bootup it takes ages to load 30-45 seconds, and the hard drive sounds like its being thrashed to an inch of its life. If I then close and reopen XY later it opens in a flash. Have I overlooked anything thats causing this. Its on a win7 Home P 32bit with 4 gb ram. QDIR which I also use occasionaly always starts instantly. Thank you

Sounds like you're retrieving folder sizes in the file list. Just a guess.

highend wrote:Ctrl + leftclick on "Various Information" in the "Help" menu.

Post a screenshot of it.

Thanks, here tis

admin wrote:

rippercod wrote:When I startup XYPlorer after bootup it takes ages to load 30-45 seconds, and the hard drive sounds like its being thrashed to an inch of its life. If I then close and reopen XY later it opens in a flash. Have I overlooked anything thats causing this. Its on a win7 Home P 32bit with 4 gb ram. QDIR which I also use occasionaly always starts instantly. Thank you

Sounds like you're retrieving folder sizes in the file list. Just a guess.

Thanks no but thats turned off

Thanks for the screenshot, alas it does not show anything suspicious.

Virus scanner active?

Does it make a difference when you start up in another directory?

Do you maybe startup in a Branch View?

admin wrote:Thanks for the screenshot, alas it does not show anything suspicious.

Virus scanner active?

Does it make a difference when you start up in another directory?

Do you maybe startup in a Branch View?

Hi, and thanks, Yes the Avast virus is active, although ive made exceptions for XYP.
No, it doesnt make any difference if I start in another folder.
Never use branch view.

I may have chosen to blame XYP for a another pc problem. To explain, I always open xyp soon after booting the pc, as I cant live without my file manager, and I use quite a number of portable applications both on the pc and a usb stick. What seems to be the case is the longer the pc has been booted before I open xyp then the quicker it (xyp) opens. It may be windows causing this by some background processes? although windows doesnt thrash the hard drive when it boots like xyp when it starts up. BTW its the same scenario if I disconnect any usb drive on bootup.

As I said I cant live without my file manager, and sometimes I need more than 2 panes, which is why i use qdir sometimes. qdir starts instantly, and never gets the hard drives pulse rate up.

I dont have any microsoft security stuff on the pc at all, as referred to in the screenshot of the info, just avast AV and the bog standard win7 firewall.

## reproduce

Observe the I/O activity when starting XYplorer and before the window is shown. In my case it's

I/O
Reads 483
Read Bytes 1,31 MB
Writes 7
Writes Bytes 752 B
Other 236 567
Other Bytes 10,47 MB

and when changing to a tabset with network path tabs


## settings

it might be related to MaxiTreePaths because when i removed it startup was only around 1 s


## dont load tabs until selected

It appears to be a failure to **not load tabs until selected**

do u wanna make these changes because it makes changing to a tabset with network path tabs (or unavailable network path tabs) slow:

* tabs are not loaded until selected (rather than loaded when the program is started or the tabset is changed)

* the I/O read count is minimized, i.o.w. making the read count equal to the minimum number of files that has to be read, which is equal to the number of settings files

Not sure what you mean. BTW, XYplorer loads in about 600ms here.

I want to bring attention to this request

> Observe the I/O activity when
> * changing to a tabset with network path tabs

> I request that
> * tabs are not loaded until selected (rather than loaded when the program is started or the tabset is changed)

Nothing I can do here. The reads you mention are deeply rooted in the current architecture.

Nevertheless startup appears fast to me. Always around 600 msecs on a slow machine by today's standards.

I'm very new to XYplorer but was having a similar problem with a 6 second startup. This was reduced to 0.3 sec by selecting "cache all network servers" in Configuration->Startup & Exit.

Hi and welcome, thanks for the info!

Don

FWIW, I also have very slow startups of XYplorer. I run it once shortly after rebooting and it stays open always.

I just closed and re-opened it, and it took a second or two under two minutes for the window to appear.

I know this is an old post, but I thought I would let all know that I found a fix, and xyplorer starts instantly now.

In the startup configuration menu I selected "do not browse network on startup", and that fixed the horrible watch the grass grow startup.

Thanks to all who assisted