Quoting Giga Wizard:

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Would the thumbnail or the txt in the Collection List window not make a difference?

Nope it loads in the same time whether I have text or thumbnails.

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Quoting puerca:

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I timed the load time for my Vista computer opening DVDP and it was 178 seconds.

8.8 seconds with all regions, 8.4 seconds with one. Some hundreds profiles, Core2-Quad, 4GB, Vista Ultimate 32bit SP1, traditional chinese language pack.

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Three Minutes!

I bet if puerca  turned off his Virus software,, the load up time would be back to normal.. 20 odd seconds.. Turn back on the Virus program ( whatever it is ) and the load up time is back to 3 minutes.. Problem solved..  The various types of virus programs check all application startups and that could seriously slow down the start up procedure.. 
Another area to check is the msconfig startup area.. possibly uncheck certain boxes, not needed for startup- could shave a lot of time off the start up as well.

Quoting Lithurge:

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If anybody's virus checker is that intrusive they need a new one.

I use Avast antivirus, free for personal use, regularly updated and doesn't impact performance too much.

I also use Avast and even with 2300+ entries DVDP loads in 8 seconds. I use the Intel E6850 and 4gigs of RAM. Its pretty fast, but not bleeding edge by a long shot.

Quoting Lithurge:

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If anybody's virus checker is that intrusive they need a new one.

I use Avast antivirus, free for personal use, regularly updated and doesn't impact performance too much.

I used to have Norton Systemworks, but changed to Avast! a few months ago. The loading times for all my programs dropped by 80% after the change, so Avast : biiig   

Great to hear the problem is fixed.

is there indexing software running on your computer? Microsoft Office, Google Desktop Search, ... disable Vista has also one of those indexing programs.
have you tryed a program like CrapCleaner (cleaning tempory files on your harddisc)
Download Process Explorer and have a Look what is actualy running on your computer:

Be carefull with these one take a step at a time: and take notes what your doing:
Windows Vista Super Tweaks
if you want go even further:
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Service Configurations
also step at a time: keep good record what you are switching of as service, if something does not work anymore you can switch a back.

Quoting puerca:

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I have not gotten the problem resolved. Although I have timed it a few more times and now it is closer to 2 minutes than 3 so that is a little bit better but still unacceptable. To address some suggestions made here, I have killed all non essential programs in the task manager and I am running AVG anti-virus.

As for my setup, I have Vista Ultimate with a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz and 2 MB of RAM. None of my other programs have this problem.

EDIT: I did a complete uninstall and reinstall and it seems to have fixed the problem. Still have no idea why it was loading so slowly. Thanks for the suggestions.

EDIT: When I reinstalled it went back to the default layout and it loaded in about 15 seconds. When I changed the layout back to my previous layout it increased the load time to about a minute. Anyone else notice that the layout drastically increases the load time? What is the fastest layout to load?

Default Invelos Layouts: If you are referring to thumbnails layout on the collection list windows top right you have 3 buttons:
these select:
View as list <- Try this one and see if it improves
View as details
View as thumbnails

Hello,

I have been fighting with DVDP loading time for a couple of days now and as I cannot get it sorted I thought I'd wake up that thread.
In short, DVD Profiler takes 7 minutes to load on my machine. Yes, I said 7 minutes! 
Every action I try like changing the layout takes 3 to 7 minutes again!

What's the story:

Up to a few days ago, I was using DVDP with over 600+ DVDs in the collection without too much trouble. It was not very fast to load but it was kind of acceptable, probably around 1mn. I thought I'd cope with that.
A few days ago, I have started a new DB. This DB, unlike the previous is made mainly of movies of my own which have no profile online available. I also have discovered the gallery possibility to add Screenshots of the movies. I then started to produce about 4 to 6 pictures per DVD for the Gallery. I also modified my Layout (I was originally using: All Fields Visible Plus - Widescreen). I made one of my own mainly made of the thumbnail on left, the Gallery in the middle and the "Cover" on the right plus the Notes to see DVDLoad [filepath] tag. I shall say, by the way, that I had DVDLoad plugin installed recently but that the slow down does not correspond to the install of this plugin.

So, now I have:
* Gone back to the Layout that was working before;
* Uninstall all plugings but DVDload (which i need)
* Modified the Options to only Keep region 1 and 2 as suggested in this very thread
* Changed the registry to add the keys as suggested in this very thread

I still need 7 minutes to load the original DB or the new one. It is a nightmare to use DVDP like this and I am worried about all the investment I have put in this tool so far.

Something interesting to note is that switching between the original 600+ Db to the new one (with about 20 movies so far) is very fast. The problem is clearly not in loading the DB itself. At least it does not look like it. I have the feeling that things started to go very wrong when I played with the Layout to make my own one.

For info I have:

Dell XPS with Intel Q6600
4GB RAM
Vista Ultimate
The DB is stored on a 1TB Western Digital caviar disk I have just purchased

It is not a matter of resources, as I have tried DVDP alone with nothing else running without making any difference.

I'll carry on with my tries and if I discover something I'll let you know but if someone has experienced that with some advice about what to do, it will be very appreciated.

Cheers.

EDIT: I have just tried to restart DVDP with a completely empty DB with exactly the same result! The DB loading is not the problem! I also notice that DVDP is trying to load another layout for start (in fact the one I have created with the huge Gallery in the middle) before switching the the last one I used (I use again the one that worked before). So, I'd say the problem is in the Layouts management. Where is DVDP storing that information and how on earth does it try to load one before another? Why is the gallery causing it so much trouble if it is? Hummm...