For me the reading of the configuration during the start of the program also takes a few seconds. It happens on multiple different computers and it started some time ago.
The computers’ age and hardware are different but all run Windows 10 Pro x64.
I tried to delete the configuration, but it didn’t help. I tried the portable version, also some older ones (32bit and 64bit) with an empty configuration. And they all take this elongated time to start.
I don’t use any special AV, just the Windows Defender. But deactivating it also doesn’t help.
I tried using Windowse’s Safe Mode, no change.
Here is some information about the “gap” I gathered using Sysinternal’s ProcessMonitor:
Time of Day | Process Name | PID | Operation | Path | Result | Detail |
23:32:45.6825275 | MultiCommander.exe | 788 | RegCloseKey | HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\CPC\Volume\{[GUID removed]} | SUCCESS | |
23:32:51.2647950 | MultiCommander.exe | 788 | RegQueryKey | HKCU | SUCCESS | Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0 |
I did the logging multiple times and the gap is always between these two entries.