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From: Michael Gibson
Hi Nick, so if that IE reset thing does not do the trick, then try this - download the ProcDump utility from here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx
Unzip that and then open up a command window and cd to that directory.
Then start up MoI, wait until approximately halfway through the long startup process and then type in the following in the command window: procdump moi
That will capture a snapshot of MoI's current program state as a crash dump file named MoI.dmp, and if you send that to me in e-mail to
moi@moi3d.com I might be able to see what is going on during that long startup period.
- Michael
From: WillBellJr
Sounds to me that Windows has its read caching turned off somehow or your hard drive configuration / performance is way below par??
Typically if you start an app, and close it, if you immediately restart it, it's usually way faster because parts of it are still cached in RAM, this sounds to me like something is turned off in your configs or similar.
Now if all the other programs on the machine starts okay then maybe it is IExplorer settings or something.
-Will
From: Nick (BODINI)
Sorry for the lapse.
There must be something goofy with this OS as a few other programs now randomly get slow (mostly Thunderbird when reply/fwding). I had also reset IE as you asked but that didnt fix anything. Being that I dont have much on this machine, I am just going restore the OS to the default state (Dell system restore).
Michael, I did do a dump log if you want it (as you had posted), but I won't ask you to spend time on it for my sake.
Thanks for the help. -Nick
From: Michael Gibson
Hi Nick, yeah it sounds like a system restore would be a good idea.
But why don't you go ahead and send me the dump anyway (e-mail to
moi@moi3d.com) I would like to take a quick look at it to see if anything sticks out in it or not.
- Michael
From: Nick (BODINI)
Crashdump file was sent to you. Thanks.
From: Michael Gibson
Hi Nick,
> Crashdump file was sent to you. Thanks.
I don't seem to have received it, can you please try sending one more time?
- Michael
From: Nick (BODINI)
What, you didnt get it despite the fact that I sent it to the wrong address? :-0
Resent to the correct address.
-Nick
From: Michael Gibson
Hi Nick, I got it and I replied to you with some details in e-mail.
From the initial look it seems to be related to system fonts somehow, at the moment that you took the crash dump snapshot there were some Windows OS components trying to enumerate fonts.
Maybe there is a corrupt font or something like that which is bogging that process down.
The font enumeration is not something that MoI is doing directly, it's an internal part of mshtml.dll initialization.
- Michael
From: BurrMan
It used to be a saying that you didnt load too many fonts in your fonts folder as it would lag the system. Dont know if THATS still true, but I dont think you want to fill it with some huge bundle of 10,000 fonts from a disk...
From: Nick (BODINI)
Oh, ah, hmmm... so maybe gin & juice + 65000fonts.torrent don't mix after all.
My memory is hazy, but I see now that there are 9,197 fonts currently in the folder.
Hmmm...
From: Michael Gibson
Hi Nick, well that would seem to be the problem.... ;)
Pick something like your favorite 1000 of those and get rid of the rest and that should probably zip things back up again.
Otherwise I guess that you will probably see this delay at odd times in a variety of apps, in some it may be when you go to edit a text document that lets you pick different fonts in it like a word processor.
- Michael
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From: Nick (BODINI)
Ok Michael. I was trying to rebuild the font library I had had previously. But, I got side tracked and then forgot to get rid of the ones I dont need. Oops! I will do that soon and give you the result.
“Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.” - Homer Simpson
-Nick
From: Nick (BODINI)
MoI is back to normal with default fonts. Thanks for your help, Michael. I guess that problem/solution can go in your troubleshooting guide. :-)
-Nick
From: Michael Gibson
Hi Nick, that's great that it is back to normal, the dump analysis paid off!
Yes, I will have to add that to my troubleshooting checklist: Have you recently been drinking and handling fonts? :)
- Michael
From: DannyT (DANTAS)
If you like your fonts you can always use a font manager, there are a few good freeware/open source ones out there.
Cheers
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