gnucash 2.4.0 slow windows startup

[Kenneth Marshall]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:50:25AM -0500, John Doppke wrote:
> >>> 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
> 
I wonder if it is some sort of anti-virus scanning or firewall
based problem? I have it starting on XP with SP3 and while not
speedy, it takes much less than a minute to start.

Cheers,
Ken