Slow start for beta 3 on Windows

2011-01-14 Thread J. Gardner
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a config. mistake on my part, but LyX beta 3 takes about 90 minutes to start each time on Win 7 32bit. I'm used to the first launch taking a while for configuration, but this is happening with every launch. Any ideas?

Re: Slow start for beta 3 on Windows

2011-01-15 Thread J. Gardner
I meant 90 seconds, not 90 minutes, sorry... MikTeX (2.8) is up to date and not running in the background, so that doesn't seem to be the issue. I have also noticed that if I make any changes to the preferences LyX locks for a couple of minutes. Tried suspending virus software, but that didn't help

SOLVED: LyX startup is slow on Windows

2011-01-27 Thread J. Gardner
Earlier I posted about slow startup (up to five minutes) with LyX 2.0 beta 3 on Windows 7 Pro 32 bit. After some experimentation, I discovered that the problem was that there was a corrupted DVD in the drive. This caused very LyX to start very slowly and freeze for several minutes every time a chan