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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The fact that Calibre started fast the second time and ran slow the first time could be because of a seriously fragmented hard drive. The second run ran faster because of things cached in memory that were not the first time and Calibre had to be loaded fully from disk.
Try defragmenting your system drive and whatever drive the Calibre library is on and see how fast it runs.
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kovid says that 1st run speed is because of need to load DLLs into memory,
a badly fragmented drive will cause a tiny amount of slowdown ( nowhere near as much as the vendors of expensive defrag programs would have you believe) but it would have almost no effect on loading calibre program only with an empty library ( which has been tried). that's a disk read of what, 50MB total ?
there's a big difference between a PC seeming a tad sluggish
, for which you would work through -> defrag everything , kill unnecessary start up services , sweep for malware, re-install OS-> -> give up & buy a better one
and having the whole thing lock up for up to a minute, including task manager, especially if that were still the case after all of the above!