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Originally Posted by cybmole
I think this is grasping at straws. defragging the registry in windows 7 might shave 2 milliseconds off of boot time. even microsoft say don't bother & don't waste your money on registry cleaners. the registry is loaded once, at boot & held in ram unless you are desperately short of that, so registry access during normal use shoudl be immediate, no matter how fragged the file copy is.
a page file in need of defrag could maybe slow a machine by a fraction of a second but not freeze it for a long time.
and either of those would impact all programs not solely calibre
a failing hard drive could cause a lengthy freeze, but we have multiple posters with the same issues, it is unlikely they all have failing drives ?
but this does prompt another thought, what if the affected users were to install & test launch calibre portable - would that freeze in the same manner as the regular install, or not ?
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to all of the above
I think the portable suggestion has been made earlier - hopefully someone will try it.
The other thing to try (if possible) would be the other installable version (32 if you have 64, 64 if you have 32 and you have enough memory). IIRC this solved a couple of other 'strange' problems in the past. It's suggested as a possible remedy in
User Manual - calibre freezes/crashes occasionally?
BR