I succumbed to the demands I kept getting and updated my Windows 10 to version 1903 and now everytime I run my app from within Xojo, it’s a 30-second wait. That used to be 2 seconds or so. The update also caused me link problems of previous file links within my Xojo app.
In addition, check apps running in the background. 1903 has several and you can deactivate many of them.
I also had an issue with Windows Defender sucking up immense amounts of resources for a few hours after upgrading one of my computers. That eventually subsided and the machine came back to its old self. I suppose that it performed a full scan of everything on the computer and then left things alone.
In my experience, Horrible things happen if a documents folder is fully synched with OneDrive or iCloud.
better to have your projects on a partition which is not synched automatically, or an external fast drive, and drag the data over manually now and then as a backup.
Stay away from Cloud Drives with your Project Files. There are many many Threads/Cases in this Forum describing all the nasty things that could go wrong.
Better create a GitHub account and Sync or use somethin like GoodSync or alike.
Well, I spoke too soon. Now, each time I RUN the project, it’s a 1 in 4 chance (or maybe better) that I’ll go into the “Not Responding” mode for up to 2 minutes. Then it kicks in and all is well.
I moved the project to the C drive. It seemed to help at first but I hadn’t given it a good enough test drive.
Then I added 4 gigs of memory to my rather puny 4 gig machine. Now there’s plenty of memory but no speed improvement.
I wonder if the project is spending time linking the project library up or something but it makes no sense to me that about 3/4 times, it runs fast as ever. There’s really no pattern to it that I can discern … as of yet, anyway.