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TI Home 2010 takes 10 minutes to launch

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Long time user of TI and recently upgraded to 2010 Home (might have been a bad decision). Anyway, upon launching, it takes as long as 10 minutes to actually get to the application running. Don't get me wrong, it works, . . . . . but isn't 10 minutes a bit much? It seems to stall on the initial screen. Eventually, it will scan the local drives and then open the main page. I'm loading it on my local Hard Drive, not off of the CD. Nothing other than XP (32bit0 SP3 is loaded at the time. I keep a "clean house", therefore, I have a minimum number of processes running in background. What the heck does it go thru doing during startup to take that long to launch?

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I can't find the exact post but TI is checking to see if there are any updates. I'm not at a machine with TI so I can't tell you exactly where to turn this feature off.

Thomasjk,
Thanks for the reply. Your response sounded like a winner and it was certainly one I didn't think of. After some minor digging, I found the entry and changed it. No effect. I then tried a restart (in case it was necessary), also with the same result. Any other suggestions?

By the way, I neglected to state it in my original post, but I'm on Build 7046

If you have any external drives connected, you could disconnect them and see if it makes a difference. Another thing to check is media card readers. Either disconnect it or disable it in Device Manager. Perhaps TI is having problems reading a particular drive/reader.

Does TI from the CD starting quickly or does it have a delay too?

MudCrab has a good thought about media card readers. If a media card reader(s) is installed in the computer, maybe checking for updated drivers for it might solve the problem. Note that Windows Update only will provide updates for drivers which have been Windows Certified. Sometimes the manufacturer of the device will have newer drivers available which fix bugs yet which they never bothered to submit for Windows Certification. I have frequently encountered this situation for older hardware. Always create a System Restore point before replacing or upgrading hardware drivers. If your computer blue screens a lot after replacing/updating a hardware driver, then you will be glad that you did create that System Restore point!

And, of course, if you have media card readers built into your computer and you do not use these, these readers can be uninstalled from inside the Device Manger.

As I've often found on this forum in the past, Grover H or MudCrab seem to always have the answers. Although I did not have any media plugged in, I do have an internal 3.5" Mulit-card USB reader. I unplugged it and the issue went away. Apparently, (as suggested) it was scanning all those ports and waiting until each timed out to proceed. Call this one fixed. I have one last issue, but it's related to recovering an image from my NAS drive. I'll enter a separate post for that to keep one issue per thread. Thanks.