slow start up Designer ProX

**masque** · 27 December 2016, 12:48 PM

Is anyone having, or continuing to have, very slow start up when first opening Designer ProX in win10 64bit, or for that matter any other version of windows? For me its a matter of remembering to start it opening before going to make a cup of tea or else the temptation to keep clicking the icon results in eventually several instances of Designer opening.
If others are experiencing this then its not so bad because I'll know it not me, but the wait for opening time is definitely the longest of any software I use.

**handrawn** · 27 December 2016, 01:03 PM

10 seconds from clicking s/cut on d/top to program fully open [but this is not the first time I have had it open this windows session, it's possible it would take longer first time. more things to check]

Xara Designer Pro X 12.4.1.47518 DL x64 Nov 17 2016
Windows 10 pro ver 1607
AMD FX / 32GB ram / SSD

**Egg Bramhill** · 27 December 2016, 01:13 PM

14 seconds.

**Boy** · 27 December 2016, 01:17 PM

Do you keep the files you're working on open when you close the program and have the option "Backup open documents on program close and restore on program start" selected (Utilities/Options/Backups)? If so, this may be a cause for slow start-up times, certainly when the open files are large.

**handrawn** · 27 December 2016, 01:18 PM

good point - I for one never do this

**gwpriester** · 27 December 2016, 02:12 PM

6 seconds with one website open.

Derek - Which version of DPX are you using? There was an issue with the older versions loading the brushes which was taking much longer.

**Acorn** · 27 December 2016, 03:09 PM

Two seconds with nothing open. 6 seconds with a image-rich page.

Check what your firewall is doing as XDPX365 connects to the Web (excessively?).

Acorn

**handrawn** · 27 December 2016, 03:27 PM

2 sec is pretty fast - get the XDPX365/12 splash in that time but not the opened editor... still there are things going on in the background on my computer

**Boy** · 27 December 2016, 03:40 PM

Also, if I remember correctly, the start-up time is longer when extra brushes have been added to the default brush folder because they are all loaded into memory for immediate use.

**handrawn** · 27 December 2016, 04:04 PM

just fired up the HP Pavilion laptop [intel i3 8GB ram hdd] - took a minute to load first time; there after about 10secs - no other user tasks running