I have what seems to be a common issue - gnucash 2.4.0 hangs at the splash screen for 5-10 minutes before starting on windows XP.
I ran Sysinternals Process Monitor while gnucash was starting and found it was going through every file name in the top level direcotry (C:\) and trying to open a reg key based on the name. After going through the entire list of file names, it started within a minute. Not sure why it's doing this or even doing anything with network access at this point. Maybe the following trace can help those that know the code: gnucash.exe 148 QueryDirectory C:\ SUCCESS 0: .idlerc, 1: .nx, 2: .qtnx, 3: .rnd, <SNIP> gnucash.exe 148 DeviceIoControl \Device\NetWareRedirector BAD NETWORK NAME gnucash.exe 148 RegOpenKey HKLM\Software\Novell\NetWareWorkstation\ServerCache\.IDLER NAME NOT FOUND <SNIP> gnucash.exe 148 CloseFile C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts SUCCESS gnucash.exe 148 RegOpenKey HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters SUCCESS gnucash.exe 148 RegQueryValue HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Domain SUCCESS gnucash.exe 148 RegCloseKey HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters SUCCESS gnucash.exe 148 RegOpenKey HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters SUCCESS gnucash.exe 148 RegQueryValue HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Domain SUCCESS gnucash.exe 148 RegCloseKey HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters SUCCESS gnucash.exe 148 DeviceIoControl \Device\NetWareRedirector BAD NETWORK NAME gnucash.exe 148 RegOpenKey HKLM\Software\Novell\NetWareWorkstation\ServerCache\AUTOEXEC.BA NAME NOT FOUND -John D _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
