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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds
« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Today at 11:16:26 »
Sorry. No there is no difference in the code for this. code for this is exactly the same in 15.x and even in 16.x  But Windows it self should cache device status.

You can turn off device in core settings > FileSystem > Tweaking.
Under Hide Device. then MC will not probe any of them.
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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds
« Last post by Barney63 on Today at 11:12:50 »
One more thing occurred to me: I reverted the registry change and launched MC v15.5 and v15.6 again. And bingo—fast starting v15.5 correctly distinguishes between online and offline network drives and displays them correctly. That doesn't happen in v15.6. It shows W: incorrectly as connected and did not show X:. There is a fundamental difference here.
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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds
« Last post by Barney63 on Today at 11:00:33 »
Okay. For anyone else facing the same issue: I found a workaround; however, other applications (Explorer, Total Commander, Salamander ) now no longer visually distinguish between connected and offline network drives, because the connection is only established at the moment of access—specifically, when I click the drive letter within the application.

Registry tweak to address the delay
  • Press Win + R, type `regedit`, and press Enter.
  • Navigate to the following path: `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider`
  • Look for the DWORD (32-bit) value named `RestoreConnection`.
  • If the value does not exist, create it by right-clicking -> New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value and naming it exactly `RestoreConnection`.
  • Double-click `RestoreConnection` and set the value to 0 (zero).
  • Restart your computer.
Note: With this setting, the network drive will no longer connect in the background during system startup (or application startup); instead, it connects only when you actively access it in File Explorer.

All versions of MC now exhibit the same startup behavior...
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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds
« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Today at 10:04:41 »
There is no change between 15.5 and 15.6 that has anything to do with the startup.. Running them after each other will affect startup time since Windows will cache result for devices. and timeouts will be less.

There is NO API call in windows that say if a network device really is there or not. Windows will have to try to access it before it can say that.
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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds
« Last post by Barney63 on Today at 09:07:40 »
Sorry for being a bit persistent here; I’d really like to use MC in the future.

I have now tested older versions of MC (portable 64-bit version).

The last version (and all older ones) that starts up quickly, as expected, is MultiCommander_x64_Portable_(15.5.0.3102). All subsequent versions exhibit this long delay.

MultiCommander_x64_Portable_(15.5.0.3102):
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2026-08-17 08:47:23.310 Initialization of Core started.
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2026-08-17 08:47:23.790 Loaded config file : d:\temp\MultiCommander_x64_Portable_(15.5.0.3102)\Config\Modules.xml
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2026-08-17 08:47:24.193 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : W
2026-08-17 08:47:24.195 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : W:
2026-08-17 08:47:24.203 [Device Manager] - Processing 'W:\' done
...
2026-08-17 08:47:25.857 Show Main Window

MultiCommander_x64_Portable_(15.6.0.3119):
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2026-08-17 08:47:24.787 Initialization of Core started.
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2026-08-17 08:47:25.546 Loaded config file : d:\temp\MultiCommander_x64_Portable_(15.6.0.3119)\Config\Modules.xml
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2026-08-17 08:47:26.380 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : W
2026-08-17 08:47:46.435 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : W:
2026-08-17 08:47:46.461 [Device Manager] - Processing 'W:\' done
...
2026-08-17 08:47:47.644 Show Main Window
That is why I still don't believe that Windows 11 (current version) is to blame here.
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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: About donating
« Last post by ncnnnn on August 14, 2026, 18:19:38 »
I should be the one saying sorry.   Wishing you good health and all the best！
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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds
« Last post by Mathias (Author) on August 14, 2026, 13:30:58 »
Normally the timeout is not 40s.. not sure why it is that long for you. MC has no control over it.
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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds
« Last post by Barney63 on August 14, 2026, 12:19:14 »
Other applications display the drives, and the timeout (typically 5 seconds for network drives, not 40 seconds) only occurs when the drive is selected. No Windows application I am aware of takes 40 seconds simply because there are disconnected network drives.
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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds
« Last post by Mathias (Author) on August 14, 2026, 09:03:33 »
MC does not handle the network it self. It is all done by Windows. and sometimes Windows does not know if it is available until it tries to access it. and it takes a while before it times out.
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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Faster detection of offline network drives when starting Multi Commander.
« Last post by Mathias (Author) on August 14, 2026, 09:01:40 »
Not possible since MC is not handled the network for remote devices it self. it is handled by Windows. and Sometimes windows does not know if the device is available or not, and it takes time for it to check,, It is possible to tweak Windows so it will timeout a lot faster
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