I received suggestions, private and public, from several members of Seesat. I looked into all the suggestions and made some changes. I don't know which specific items helped, but the program now starts in 5 seconds instead of 5 minutes! Thank you very much to all who wrote to me. You made a big difference. - Jay Respler Monroe Township, New Jersey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 5/7/22 11:47:37 AM, Skywise via Seesat-l wrote: > On 5/6/2022 11:23 PM, JAY RESPLER via Seesat-l wrote: >> A major problem with Heavensat is that it takes a full 5 minutes to >> startup. >> Has anyone found a way to substantially decrease that time? > > > You may want to look into adding an exclusion for Heavensat in Windows > Defender. > It may be doing a full scan of the program every time you launch it. > > I had a few programs taking way too long to boot on my fast gaming laptop > (i7-9750H 3.5GHz 6 core, 16GB DDR4, 1TB M.2). I mean like taking > minutes to load. > Once I added the exclusions, the programs now launch within seconds. > > I discovered this by noticing the programs seemed to launch faster > when NOT > connected to the internet. So I carefully watched task manager while > waiting for > the program to launch, seeing a lot of network activity, and > researching the tasks > taking up CPU time. With the exclusions applied, they launch even faster. > > In my case this mostly happens with programs I've installed as > "standalone" or > "portable", so windows must not be remembering anything about them as > it would > after an initial install and scan. > > Instructions: > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-exclusion-to-windows-security-811816c0-4dfd-af4a-47e4-c301afe13b26 > > > Do this ONLY for programs you trust from reputable sources. > > PS. if you have other AV software installed, check it too. > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon May 09 2022 - 00:23:31 UTC
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