"Vadym Stetsyak" <vady***@ukr.net> wrote in message
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> Hello, Lloyd!
>
> LD> After a reboot other cold start takes less than 15 seconds, perhaps
> LD> 3~4s.
>
> LD> I tried to improve cold start by NGEN everything in the installer.
> LD> Now I don't know if I make an error or something in the installer but
> LD> my first cold start time didn't improve (after I tested it).
>
> Then you should find out what takes most time during startup and try to
> optimize it.
> Take a look at for more information about the issue
> ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/02/CLRInsideOut/ )
>
> --
> Regards, Vadym Stetsyak
> www: http://vadmyst.blogspot.com

"Alan Pretre" <no@spam> wrote in message
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> "Lloyd Dupont" <net.galador@ld> wrote in message
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>> Any ideas on what I could do to improve my 1st cold start?
>
> Besides NGEN, it may also be other DLL's your application needs to load
> in. Windows has its file cache filled on successive startups.
>
> If fast startup time is necessary you could try a secondary application to
> preload your DLL's, ala Acrobat (Adobe Reader Speed Launch) and others.
> These go in Startup or a Windows Service and load the modules in at
> startup or login.
>
> -- Alan
>
>