I use still V10.10c, the latest version without Armadillo. UltraEdit starts in one second on all my machines
Same here when use pre-Armadillo UE builds
I also tried the latest 10.20 version and it starts as fast as the V10.10c.
No way, sorry. As already told, Armadillo startup lag is a known and confirmed (by its author) side effect of this protection.
First, I have set UltraEdit to store everything in the INI file and nothing in the registry. I use still the old V8.xx toolbar and menus, which are stored in the INI file (ini settings also manually sorted alphabetically). Loading settings from a 18 kB INI file is simply much faster than loading it from a 600 kB (Win95), 4.5 MB (Win98) or 16 MB (Windows XP) registry, which is not sorted, often fragmented and contains still deleted data, even if you can't see the deleted data with Regedit any more.
I'm using ini file too but that's not an issue. Accessing registry for reading known keys is ultra fast, even when registry file is fragmented because reg API use direct random access and not sequential. As you say registry defragment can help other situations (like Win boot time) but makes no difference using UltraEdit.
Second, my computers are extremely optimized for speed.
I killed every unneeded automatically started program with
Autoruns.
You can find the information about the automatically started programs in the internet.
No need to use a utility to cleanup unused startup processes. Just visit related registry keys (e.g. RUN, RUNONCE etc.) and remove useless entries. BTW I always do that with all computers I have access to, especially those used for development.
I remove the "deleted" Windows XP registry entries with NTRegOpt. On Windows 9x start in MS-DOS mode and run this batch file (REGOPT.BAT) for recreating an optimized registry.
I'm using my own login/logout scripts that clear all MRU, RecentFiles, Stream folders, RunMRU data as well as all temp files/folders before log in or log out.
Clean up your hard disk with windows Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) in the start menu - Programs - Accessories - System Tools.
CLEANMGR /Sagerun:xx is called from my own shutdown scripts that also erase other "protected" data files
Defragment the drives with windows defragmentation tool.
PerfectDisk 6 is installed in all of our company's machine and defrag on per/day basis.
You can find many other useful optimization tips in the internet. If your PC needs more than 45 seconds to start
No problem Mofi, Windows startup is very fast (<20 sec).
And don't forget to optimize your virus scanner.
Virus scanner on a development machine? You must be kidding
I have F-Prot installed on all LAN machines, but used on-demand to prevent silly services and tasks from running.
As you understand, i have optimized my computers, actually optimization is a must for me, not only because of UE but due my work nature. You cannot code debug and run system drivers and apps in a machine with NAV or other huge garbageware installed.
Unfortunately UE is slow on startup and the reason is known. It is slow on p4/3.4Ghz / 2GB or twin CPU/4GB machines (SCSI320/SATA) and I can do nothing for that.
On same machines, tools like VS.NET, MultiEdit 9, VSlickEd fire up in a fraction of a second, and these are multiMegabyte heavy apps.
Regards