Slow startup

[m3Lith]

From the time Windows desktop appears after boot, to the time that the launcher input appears, it takes almost 2 minutes.

I guess that's a bit unusual?

Anything I can do to see what's causing this?

[taooceros]

Have you installed any plugin? If the programs index hasn't been cached, it may take some time to do that job before startup. However, it shouldn't be as long as 2 minutes.

[jjw24]

Anything I can do to see what's causing this?

You can restart your comp and once Flow has loaded, upload your logs here, we can take a look if any errors or unusual activity is going on. Having said this, my flow sometimes is last to start up and sometimes takes a minute or two to load after a reboot.

[m3Lith]

Hmm, and you haven't figured out what's the problem in your case?

My logs form last startup: https://pastebin.com/sDCP9NUH

[taooceros]

Hmm, and you haven't figured out what's the problem in your case?

My logs form last startup: https://pastebin.com/sDCP9NUH

I take a look on the log, and the initialization time of most Plugins are a bit longer, but should still only takes a few seconds to be done. Therefore, I think the possible reason for the slow startup is the indexing of Program plugin.

@jjw24 should we stop waiting the program plugin indexing if there are existing Win32 & UWP program that is preloaded? (this happens every three day)

Another thought is that should we stop waiting all Plugins initialization task to be done, but instead stop querying them when they hasn't been initialized (and telling people if it is has been specified action keyword).

[jjw24]

@jjw24 should we stop waiting the program plugin indexing if there are existing Win32 & UWP program that is preloaded? (this happens every three day)

Yes, I think it works better if already preloaded (assuming this means exists in cache data) then do not wait, use cache until indexing is finished

[jjw24]

Hmm, and you haven't figured out what's the problem in your case?

I rarely restart my laptop and and usually Flow finishes starting up after the others so I didn't really register it as an issue in my mind.

[jjw24]

@m3Lith could you give this build from PR 381 a go and let me know if it's fixed the slow start up issue:
https://ci.appveyor.com/api/buildjobs/gqqmqu2k9bo2ame3/artifacts/Output%2FPackages%2FFlow-Launcher-v1.7.2.exe

[m3Lith]

I don't think it did, still takes a while.. Latest log: https://pastebin.com/GUgurrGy

[taooceros]

I don't think it did, still takes a while.. Latest log: https://pastebin.com/GUgurrGy

@m3Lith how long do you wait until the program startup? As the logs indicates, it takes about 5-10 seconds to do the initialization jobs?
I have seen the startup time in the log. Let us try figuring out it takes so long.

A weird thing I have seen is that the preload time consuming much less than the initialization time of the program plugin. Not sure what cause that.

[taooceros]

@m3Lith Sorry for inconvenience but we may need you to use this build and upload the log again to allow more initialization time information on Startup. https://ci.appveyor.com/api/buildjobs/xsafkfdj27dkwb0h/artifacts/Output%2FPackages%2FFlow-Launcher-v1.7.2.exe