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Mofi gave great advice on tracing the startup process above using the Process Monitor from SysInternals (Microsoft).

As far as starting UEStudio 30 times a day... I would never do that. If you need it that often, then you should start it at the beginning of your day (I have a shortcut in my startup folder to start UEStudio with Windows), and leave it open for the entire day, minimizing it when not needed.

Once you have UEStudio open, use uesFastStart, a handy utility written by one of the users here, which will open your files into UEStudio without trying to "start" UEStudio again. If you set explorer to open with uesFastStart instead of UEStudio, then uesFastStart will check to see if UES is already open, then "drop" the files into UES, which is a much faster operation than the way explorer will usually issue an execute command to UES with the file as a parameter.

The first post in the topic will explain how to do it, and it has links to ueFastStart and uesFastStart.

The FIX!

I tried everything I found in this forum then contacted support:

First, UEStudio may be trying to communicate with a printer on your network during startup/shutdown.
Please go to Advanced -> Configuration -> Editor -> Advanced uncheck "Load/Restore Printer Settings" to see if this helps.

If this does not help, the slowness may be due to UEStudio collecting volume information about each one of your connected drives on startup. To disable this, go to Advanced -> Configuration -> Application Layout -> File Tree View and uncheck the following settings:

- Show volume labels in Explorer view
- Show registered file type icons in Explorer view
- Scan for empty folders in Explorer view
- Resolve Link files and directories in Explorer view when opened

I also unchecked Show volume info for floppy drive(s).

This makes a lot of sense as I had just installed another 4TB of hard drives and MAPPED two samba servers!

Now I'm a happy camper UEStudio loads in under a second (Dual quad core 3ghz Xeon's with 12GB memory 6 drive raid 5 1.4tb with 4tb sled backup).