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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on August 17, 2026, 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 August 17, 2026, 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.
...
2026-08-17 08:47:23.790 Loaded config file : d:\temp\MultiCommander_x64_Portable_(15.5.0.3102)\Config\Modules.xml
...
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
...
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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Support and Feedback / Re: Update the Microsoft Store version?

« Last post by mrsbean on August 11, 2026, 15:49:08 »

Thanks! That would be great :-)

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Support and Feedback / Background Colors Stop Working

« Last post by Kevin Parr on August 10, 2026, 19:49:01 »

I am using MultiCommander version 16.1 build 3200, regular (not portable) version, running under Windows 11 Home version 10.0.26200.

I set background colours for the active and inactive explorer panels (Configuration / Explorer Panel Settings / Colors (tab) / Background / Active panel & Inactive panel) so that there are alternative colour stripes behind the file names.

After a while - a bit random and I haven't timed it specifically - the background colours stop working and the background of the panel is all white. If I close MultiCommander and restart it, the background colours are used again. If I open a new tab, including from a tab where the background colours stopped working, the new tab uses the background colours.

I had the same problem with previous builds of version 16.1. I don't recall it happening with the 15.x versions but (with apologies) I can't say that with 100% confidence.

My computer has 32GB of RAM. Process Explorer shows that about 26GB is in use.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Faster detection of offline network drives when starting Multi Commander.

« Last post by Barney63 on August 10, 2026, 11:00:59 »

Faster detection of offline network drives when starting Multi Commander (Windows).

https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,5213.0.html