Thread: Calibre very slow on a Windows7?
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Old 08-16-2010, 10:24 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
You might want to defragment the drive with calibre on it (c:?). The reason this might help is that the calibre program is made around 1000 small files + some number of larger ones. When you start calibre, it must open all of these. If they have become spread all over your disk, then starting calibre could slow down significantly.
That did the trick . Thanks!

I had no idea we still need to defrag drives in windows 7. Looking at the defrag utility it is scheduled to run every Wednesday night at 1:00, only I never leave the computer on at nights, so the drive was probably in a very sad shape.

Thanks again.
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