PE startup delay

[lewisg]

What is happening during the time the About... box is displayed during the PICAXE Programming Editor startup? Sometimes the PE startup is almost instantaneous other times it takes up to a minute.

Any ideas?

 

[nick12ab]

I never find that it takes a minute, but if you click it it goes away.

 

[westaust55]

Likely nothing more than a pause in an endeavour to give folks time to see the pop-up.

On a slower machine say with a AthlonXP 3200 (2.2 GHz) with 2GB RAM running 32 bit WinXP, I see the "About" window for about 5 seconds everytime.
However on say a PC with a 3.2 GHz i5 CPU, 4 GB RAM, running 64 bit Win7 it is virtually instantaneous everytime.

 

[hippy]

Sometimes the PE startup is almost instantaneous other times it takes up to a minute.

Any ideas?

Do you have any Bluetooth devices installed ?

Sometimes Bluetooth drivers can cause long delays when serial ports are checked as the normal 'is the port there' test has the driver looking to see if it can make a connection to its paired device before it eventually announces there is no connection on that port.

 

[lewisg]

Do you have any Bluetooth devices installed ?

Yep, it's a laptop!

16 com ports of various descriptions in Device Manager.

Is there a way to stop this less than desirable behavior? Perhaps a command line switch for progedit.exe to specify the port to use or restrict the posts scanned?