Hi, this is the first time I post something in this forum, so let me thank you in advance for your amazing work and website. The pb I have is that I'm noting since a lot of time a very slowness in loading the extension at the startup of GIMP. This happened with the 2.6.10 version that I uninstalled and reinstalled more than once without success. Consider that I also clean the register and remove any directory before the reinstallation. I alsop tried the 2.7.1 but my pc suffers about the same issue. I have also defragged and cleaned the disk. What can I resolve this problem? Any suggestion? Please help me.

On 03/10/2010 09:21, Kekko wrote:

Hi, this is the first time I post something in this forum, so let me thank you in advance for your amazing work and website. The pb I have is that I'm noting since a lot of time a very slowness in loading the extension at the startup of GIMP. This happened with the 2.6.10 version that I uninstalled and reinstalled more than once without success. Consider that I also clean the register and remove any directory before the reinstallation. I alsop tried the 2.7.1 but my pc suffers about the same issue. I have also defragged and cleaned the disk. What can I resolve this problem? Any suggestion? Please help me.

1) how slow is "slow" for you? Can you give za figiure in seconds (or in minutes?)

2) use the --verbose flag as a Gimp startup parameter (in Windows, update/duplicate your Gimp shortcut and add a "--verbose" to the target, so that it reads something like:

"C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin\gimp-2.6.exe" --verbose

This will make Gimp give you details of what it's doing during startup and you may see when the delay happens.

1' and 30" too much but the cause is PC Tools Spyware Antivirus, I stopped it and re tried and GIMP starts up in a few seconds. How can I say to PC Tools Spyware to ignore GIMP?

Find the PC-Tools-Spyware-Antivirus-user list for that :-) or find a better antivirus.

There isn't anything in the net, someone has the same pb also with other antivirus?

Solved! I changed the folder of the plugins in the preferences, more precisely I deleted the string pointing to an empty directory. Now GIMP start very fastly.