[Qgis-user] QGIS take several minutes to start on Windows 7

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Cliff,

I don't really know what is going on on your machine.

Just a shot in the dark: if you run an antivirus software, try to 
disable it and see if it helps.

The other guess would be plugins, but you said that you already tried 
starting with the --noplugins switch, so that doesn't help either ...

Hope you are able to find out what the problem is.

Andreas


Am 21.11.2016 um 20:53 schrieb Régis Haubourg:
> Hi Cliff,
> this reminds me of a nasty thing I encountered before.
> I logged all there: 
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Qgis-first-startup-is-slow-td4975911.html
>
> I disappeared when reinstalling a new version, without clearly 
> understanding what happened. Final tests let think that something was 
> weird with windows shared file system where profiles where stored.
> What is your exact OS version?
>
> All I can advice is to log all what happens with process_monitor.exe 
> and look at the errors you get.
> Also, can you tell us:
> What happens in those test cases?
>  - launch qgis again while first instance has not startup yet
>  - launch qgis using configpath option with a profile on another drive 
> than currently (network or local?)
>  - is the second startup faster than the first one ? (if yes you have 
> another Microsoft windows phenomenon called cold startup cumulating 
> itself with previous one)
>
> Thanks for your tests, you face a really rare issue that we must 
> narrow down and solve,  really
>
> Cheers
> Régis
>
> 2016-11-21 20:15 GMT+01:00 Cliff Patterson <cliffpatterson at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cliffpatterson at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Greetings,
>
>     On a new Dell laptop running Windows 7 (i7, 8GB ram), it takes
>     about 3-5 minutes for QGIS to start, which is a hassle. It hangs
>     at “Starting up the GUI” and if I click on the splash screen, it
>     crashes, but if I let it sit it eventually starts without any
>     error. I have had this problem since installing QGIS 2.14 using
>     the OSGeo4W 64-bit installer. I have since completely removed that
>     installation, deleted the .qgis folder, and deleted all registry
>     entries. I then reinstalled using the standalone installer and
>     still no luck. I currently have QGIS versions 2.14, 2.16, and 2.18
>     installed and experience the same problem with each.
>
>     Other steps I've taken were to disable plugins and remove plugins,
>     but no change on startup.
>
>     I have the same versions running on another Windows 7 machine and
>     a Linux VM with no problems.
>
>     The only error I see in the logs is the following:
>
>     2016-11-21T13:37:48 1 Failed to load
>     C:/PROGRA~1/QGIS2~1.14/apps/qgis-ltr/plugins/globeplugin.dll
>     (Reason: Cannot load library
>     C:/PROGRA~1/QGIS2~1.14/apps/qgis-ltr/plugins/globeplugin.dll: The
>     specified procedure could not be found.)
>
>     Does anyone know what could be causing QGIS to boot up so slowly?
>
>     Cheers,
>     Cliff
>
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