<p>Thanks Phil,</p>
<p>I've just tried it to see if it has any impact on the start speed (I've known sillier things in the past...).</p>
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<p>Five starts with the flash screen on, average 2:43, scatter 2sec (excluding first start which was way over four minutes - I went and brewed up I got so bored of waiting)</p>
<p>Three starts with flash screen off, average 2:42, scatter 2sec - nothing in it.</p>
<p>I was wandering if the pre-loading of Powerpoint was a contributor, but it loads in a few seconds on this PC, so I think that's a binnable thought.</p>
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<p>I've just tried the same on another PC, which has only a couple of songs and no Bibles in its database, and the load times are significantly shorter, like first start is just about a minute, and subsequent starts are about 20-30sec. (The first PC has about 2000 songs and three bibles in the database). Both PCs are similar performance in terms of processor speed, memory and disks, if anything the one that's faster to start openlp is the slower PC...</p>
<p>These observations are pointing towards the startup delays being in the way the database is being loaded or cached?</p>
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<p>(Both running windows XP sp3, 32 bit, both have 3Gb RAM)</p>