That sounds like a network delay, due to attempting to access, say, a shared drive that is not actually available.
-- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) On 19 March 2015 at 13:39, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > Folks, sometime in the last couple of weeks I noticed that Visual Studio > 2014 was taking a long time to start, but only when I ran it as > Administrator. Launching it as my normal user account makes it come up in a > second. The last time this happened I used procmon to discover that > thousands of small HTML files were being written due to me accidentally > leaving fuslog active, but that's not happening this time. > > This time neither procmon or Fiddler show any unusual activity of any type > around the pause. VS simply stops for exactly 30 seconds while the CPU sits > at 0% busy, then it appears as normal. This exact 30 second delay has be > stumped. Any ideas anyone? > > Greg K