gnucash 2.4.0 slow windows startup

[John Doppke]

>>> On 1/14/2011 at 7:29 AM, Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m at icg-online.de> wrote:
> 
> I have the same issue on a notebook with Win XP Professional SP2. Are
> you using Win XP Prof. as well?
> 
> This problem is a known issue. See 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521817 

Yes I'm using Win XP Pro SP3.

Is anyone working on this?  I've seen discussion in the past but it doesn't seem
to be a hot item.  

> 
> Unfortunately it looks like nobody has been able to find the root cause
> so far.
>  
Well gnucash.exe is looking for something on the network based on files in the root directory.
I'll bet if I install it in the root of it's own drive it will start much faster.

Did I read that running it on a thumb drive starts faster?

-John