Opening time after startup of Windows

[Thorsten Hohage]

Hi  Leo,

On 2008-11-24, at 09:52, Leo Van den Brande wrote:
> Under Windows XP, opening my DB the first time after starting up the
> computer takes long.
You are talking about "opening" the DB in sense of local usage and not  
connecting to a server? For the further I'm going to assume this ...


> Some data:
> Actual size: 191 MB, Tables 34, Index nr: 297, presently residing on
> the harddisk,
> Large DB for testing: size: 513 MB, same specifications,
>
> Times:
> Windows. First opening:  Actual DB:  44-50 sec, Large DB:  115-121
> sec. Second opening: 2 rsp. 3-4 sec.
> Mac. First opening:  Actual DB:  6 sec, Large DB:  14 sec. Second
> opening: 6 sec in both instances.


Hm, the sizes didn't sound that big for me, not a small one, but not  
hugh. IMHO the differences between Win and Mac are really astonishing!

Did you check this on only one machine or on several windows machines?

Was this a real machine or a Virtual PC running on a Mac?

When thinking about "opening" a file with such a delay, a Anti-Virus  
comes to my mind really fast!?!?! Probably there is no one running on  
the Mac and perhaps the one on the Win machine did a close look on the  
first start up - can you check to see if there is something running  
and try to switch of before starting for the first time.

Did you try to open the DBs e.g. directly in Valentina Studio? Are  
there the same differences? Especially when reading that you are using  
REALbasic (I have my OWN experience with it especially WIN <> MAC) I  
would really, really check if there is something else going wrong  
during start up on Win!


regards,

Thorsten Hohage
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Valentina Technology Evangelist
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