Hello,

I am an engineering student running SolidWorks on my laptop at my house, for homework. I am experiencing extremely slow boot-up speeds for SolidWorks. I am running SolidWorks Education Edition 2011 SP5.0. It takes approximately 2 minutes 30 seconds from me double clicking the SolidWorks Shortcut to SolidWorks opening and allowing me to open/start a part.

My laptop specs are:

ASUS G74S

Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit

Intel i7-2630QM (QuadCore that Turboboosts to 2.9GHz)

16GB RAM DDR3 1333MHz

750GB HDD 5400rpm

nVidia Geforce GTX 560M (3GB)

However, I do not believe that this is a problem with my laptop not being powerful enough. When I open task manager while SolidWorks is booting up, my CPU never gets above 5%, and RAM use never gets above 2.5GB. After a SolidWorks part/assembly is open I don't run into any hitches at all. Also when playing high end video games (ex. Metro 2033) they all load in less than 10 seconds. What I don't understand though, is on my old laptop (about 4 years old, not very powerful) I had SolidWorks 2010 installed, and it booted-up in less than 30 seconds.

Is this problem, perhaps, with the edition of SolidWorks installed or is it something else?

Another note is when I installed SolidWorks on my computer I had to input 3 seperate servers for the licenses (due to the fact that it is supplied by my school), could it be that it is taking a long time for SolidWorks to communicate with the servers? However, my friend has SolidWorks 2010 installed on his computer (which also has the same 3 servers to communicate with) and his opens in less than 30 seconds.

Any thoughts??

Thank you!