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SW 2008/2009 start up time ????

Question asked by 1-BXBISG on Jan 7, 2009
Latest reply on Mar 29, 2009 by Kelvin Lamport

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Can somebody advise how to improve software srart up time? For my PC it longs 5min30sec (Intel Pentium Dual E2160@1.8 GHz; 2GB RAM; WIN XP Home SP3; Quadro FX 570 sert. driver for SW)

At least 2/3 of this time the CPU Usage while SW loading is 0%

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Paul Lemke Jan 7, 2009 12:44 PM
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I notice that your running the XP home version. Xp home is not a recommended OS.

You did not state your type of memory or speed. 2.0 GB is way too small you should just max out your motherboard to the 4.00 gb right off. Memory is super cheap especially if it is old unless it is really rare memory.

FSB Bus speed (Front side bus, FSB) on motherboard is critical because it is the size and speed of the pipe from your processor to your video card and to your memory. It determines how fast information gets from point a to point b. I believe over a 1.067 Ghz is standard for good performance. Here is a wiki on it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_side_bus ).

Processor is also slow and out dated. Anything below 2.0 Ghz is slow.

Quadro fx 570 is also entry level graphics according to nvidia. http://www.nvidia.com/page/qfx_el.html

So your OS is bad. Your processor is bad, so probably your motherboard is bad and your FSB is bad. You video card is barely passing and it is bad. And you are wondering why it takes 5.0 minutes to load Solidworks?

I bought my home computer for $700 and it is better. quad core 2.4 GHz

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Charles Culp Jan 7, 2009 12:46 PM
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Sounds like it could be searching for your templates, or another file that it can't find. Review what you have in Tools>Options>System Options>File Locations, and make sure all of the folders that it searches through are correct. Also, since you are having problems make sure they are on your machine, and not out on a server or other computer.

Also try disabling all of your ad-ins and see if it starts any faster. Do you have a network license or do you have a single install license?
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- Devon Sowell @ Charles Culp on Jan 7, 2009 1:02 PM
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  Vista64 w/4GB Ready Boost really improved the 2009 SolidWorks start up time on my Dell M6300 laptop (Dual Core 2.6GHz, 4GB RAM).
  
  2009 SolidWorks Start Up Times Dell M6300:
  
  XP Pro 32 115 seconds
  
  Vista64 w/4 GB Ready Boost 19 seconds!
  
  The laptop now 'boots' very quickly now too.
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- 1-BXBISG @ Charles Culp on Jan 8, 2009 6:20 AM
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  I have a SNL client. All files and pathes in SW configs are correct and on my local pc.
  During my previous starts the next add-ins were active:
  -Photoworks
  -SWsimulation
  -Routing
  
  Pure start up time with no add-ins active is 47sec.
  Here are the stats for active only 1 add-in during strat up:
  -Photoworks: 2min 32sec
  -SWsimulation: 2min 36sec
  -Routing: 1min 50sec
  All 3 at the same time, like i used to mention is 5min 30sec.
  
  I cant blame my hardware, also I have latest updates for my system and SW software. I have another much worse machine (athlon 1.3GHz, 0.5GB RAM, GeForce) at home and SW starts 4 faster with all 3 add-ins active. BUT excluding the hardware the main difference is OS, on home machine its Win XP PRO instead of Home version at work and no SNL.
  
  But our IT says that main diff. between Pro and Home are only network and administartive tools, so according this it can not affect OS perfomance.
  
  But anyway i think smth is wrong, 'cose during any start-up with any add-in, the CPU usage is 0 for 90% of loading time.
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  - Gary Garrison @ 1-BXBISG on Jan 8, 2009 1:39 PM
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    Andrei Knoshev wrote:
    
    But our IT says that main diff. between Pro and Home are only network and administartive tools, so according this it can not affect OS perfomance.
    
    You would think that they are the same thing, but I have never had so many problems with a computer as I had with XP Home from my OEM Custom Build. Magically they all went away when I installed XP Pro on my own. Granted this was a long time ago.
    
    I'm about to build a new home computer and this time I went with Vista Premium 64-bit. Well see how well this goes.
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Paul Lemke Jan 8, 2009 3:43 PM
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Andrei

Home and XP Pro is not the same as you are finding out. I found this article and thought you might be interested.

"Divide them into managed and unmanaged environments," added John Frederiksen, the General Manager of the PC Experience Solution Group, noting that some smaller businesses would probably install Home Edition regardless of the target marketing. "Some small businesses have administrators, some don't. Home Edition is not a managed OS. It's optimized for that consumer market. A lot of the OEM PCs marketed to consumers are bought by small businesses. In terms of naming, we wanted to continue the Professional name."

In others words XP pro has had improvements made over time to memory management, efficiency and stabilility. Home edition has not.

Multi-processor support - Windows XP Pro supports up to two microprocessors, while Home Edition supports only one. (So if you have a current dual core and you want the OS to take advantage of it, one core for the OS and one core for SW, Home will not do this. Side note: I wonder if anyone bought a upgrade to a multicore chipset and then avoided vista home for xp home. There goes half of your upgrade! )
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- Karl Zemlin @ Paul Lemke on Mar 27, 2009 6:52 PM
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  Paul Lemke wrote:
  
  Multi-processor support - Windows XP Pro supports up to two microprocessors, while Home Edition supports only one. (So if you have a current dual core and you want the OS to take advantage of it, one core for the OS and one core for SW, Home will not do this. Side note: I wonder if anyone bought a upgrade to a multicore chipset and then avoided vista home for xp home. There goes half of your upgrade! )
  
  XP Home does support multiple cores, but not multiple discreet processors. A dual core pentium will use both cores.
  
  I have also noticed a major slowdown with SW launching - we went from 2007 to 2009 a couple months ago. I'm on a Lenovo T61p laptop.
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Basil Gello Jan 11, 2009 11:07 AM
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Andrei,

try Win XP Pro x64 Edition after upgrading your memory banks (4GB will be really good) - this may help. If you have no passion to upgrade your hardware and/or software, you can simply defragment your HDD partitions, so your files will not be cut into small pieces thus the load time of the necessary DLLs will be shortened. Also, if there is a paranoid firewall or antivirus like Kaspersky running on maximal protection, you will also get a very long time before your applications start, so try switching off the network (to prevent your machine from infections) and then switch off your antivirus and firewall to see what happens. I am sure you will get two-three times faster load of SW with a properly defragmented hard drive and a lightweight antivirus.

After you do all this, reply in this topic about the results.

Regards, Basil.
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- Tom Cote @ Basil Gello on Jan 11, 2009 12:50 PM
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  Try shutting off "Show latest news feeds in task pane" and "Enable performance feedback" found under Tools\Options\System Options\General.
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  - Wendell Hatton @ Tom Cote on Mar 18, 2009 2:22 PM
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    Clean out your temp dir.
    
    C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Local Settings\Temp\
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Kelvin Lamport Mar 29, 2009 7:42 PM
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Andrei ... If startup times are important to you, consider loading the OS and SW onto a SSD.
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