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Originally Posted by cybmole
PS >eschwatz - I cannot face reading the whoel thread again, but pretty sure the debug option was tried by others and revealed nothing i.e. whatever is causing the freeze is before the debug initiates. Good to know you can't experisnce this on linux thoguh, it does point to being a windows-only issue
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The procmon experiments in this thread showed exactly where the freeze happens. Calibre via qt loads the Adobe Font Manager (atmfd.dll), which triggers the security scan. If you google for "catroot atmfd.dll freeze " you will find several other programs that can trigger it, including firefox.
As an aside: note that atmfd.dll has been identified as having a severe vulnerability allowing remote web sites to take control of your computer. A recent windows update corrects it. That update apparently has had a few problems of its own. I don't know whether installing this update will help or hurt the freeze, given that for me the security scan happens during boot.