2011/1/27 J. Gardner <disinteres...@gmail.com>: > Earlier I posted about slow startup (up to five minutes) with LyX 2.0 > beta 3 on Windows 7 Pro 32 bit. After some experimentation, I > discovered that the problem was that there was a corrupted DVD in the > drive. This caused very LyX to start very slowly and freeze for > several minutes every time a change was made to the preferences > (presumably because of an interaction with Windows explorer). > Interestingly, it didn't cause problems with other applications. > Removing the DVD solved the problem, but I thought it might be useful > to note what the solution was -- maybe it suggests a change that can > be made to prevent similar problems.
I suspect this problem to be deeper than LyX code itself. Probably something in Qt library requests WinAPI specific calls to identify drives available in the system. It is a Windows fault it hangs for long time trying to identify broken DVD in the drive. Similar scenario is happening in Total Commander if you select the drive with faulty disc. -- Manveru jabber: manv...@manveru.pl gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
