I don't have a problem with calibre start times, sub 10 seconds on my 20,000+ book library, sub 3 secs on an empty database - the difference is the time to display the data, I also don't perceive any difference between 1st starts and subsequent starts. I use an i5 processor, 6GB, system and data are on separate 7200rpm disks
The attached zip contains 2 Process Monitor logs of what calibre 'looks at' in the Window directory hierarchy on my Windows 7 SP1 system when I start on an empty library
Logfilestart1.CSV 1st start after a reboot
Logfilestart2.CSV 2nd start after a reboot
Apart from the font files, the files that Calibre accesses in the Windows directory are much the same as other applications do. I looked at xplorer2, and one of my own programs written in C.
The differences between the two starts don't look significant to me, and if anything the 2nd start was a tad slower than the 1st.
One thing that stood out was a number of these
Code:
"C:\Windows\system32\site-packages\calibre\utils\formatter_functions.py","PATH NOT FOUND",
The windows/system32/catroot and catroot2 directories mentioned by Dr Chipper don't appear in my Process Monitor logs for calibre, or any other programs.
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DrChipper - have you removed the SP1 install, you can do it with Disk CleanUp, might have to run it with UAC off or as Admin to get the option. What would you lose? The ability to Uninstall SP1
BR