Xara & CPU usage

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi again Phil. It's not just the initial opening of the Options window it's every occasion I click to open it. It can take between 15 to 25 seconds to open.

Followed your advice and removed all the plugins. There wasn't a great deal in the first place. See screengrab.

Closed Xara.

Rebooted my machine.

Started Xara.

Utilities / Options still takes an eternity to load.

Once open, clicking on the Internet tab still takes an eternity.

Checked my plugins folder. None present.

Tried one further thing, opened the Internet tab (waited...) & selected Empty Cache.

Took about a minute and a window pops up, states something along the lines that the cache will be repopulated next time I start Xara. The Cache is shown as 0 bytes.

But what is interesting is that now the Utilities / options window loads within a second. Clicking the Internet Tab does likewise.

However I suspect that on closing & restarting the cache will be repopulated & my problems will return.

Just before closing & restarting I thought I'd check the Local Design Gallery to see if this loaded quicker. Unfortunately it was totally blank! Not even a folder display & +More to Download All (which I'd only just done earlier today) Perhaps because I'd cleared the cache?