Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds

[Barney63]

New MC user here, Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds, both installed and portable version. OneDrive is installed and active. Any ideas?
Windows 11, all updates.

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2026-08-07 10:18:53.311 Use extra UI thread for progress dialogs : 0
2026-08-07 10:18:53.316 Failed to read the key mapping file : CustomKeymappings.xml
2026-08-07 10:18:53.375 Copied templete config file : "C:\Program Files\MultiCommander (x64)\Config\Scripts\Examples\Examples.zip" to (cutted...)
2026-08-07 10:20:04.045 OneDrive folder not found : ""
2026-08-07 10:20:04.045 OneDrive folder not found : ""
2026-08-07 10:20:04.062 Dropbox appdata folder not found : "C:\Users\Bernd\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox"
2026-08-07 10:20:04.062 GoogleDrive folder not found : "<empty>"
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[Mathias (Author)]

in core setting for logging.. for application log , change loglevel to full.. and you will se in more details in the log., often it is becuse it tries to get information about remote devices that is not reachable.

[Barney63]

Thank you.

P:, W:, and X: are mapped network drives belonging to PCs that are only in use intermittently and are powered off when Multi Commander starts up.
P: causes a startup delay but is not displayed as "offline" within MC; this only happens with W: and X:.
When I bring P: online, W: then causes a startup delay. It seems Multi Commander generally struggles with offline network drives and consequently skips the subsequent drives?
I also currently use Total Commander, which does not exhibit this behavior; it always starts quickly and immediately displays P:, W:, and X: as offline drives.

If P: ist offline, it delays startup:

2026-08-08 10:22:06.737 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : P
2026-08-08 10:22:30.442 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : P:
2026-08-08 10:22:30.457 [Device Manager] - Processing 'P:\' done
2026-08-08 10:22:30.457 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : W
2026-08-08 10:22:30.459 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : W:
2026-08-08 10:22:30.480 [Device Manager] - Processing 'W:\' done
2026-08-08 10:22:30.480 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : X
2026-08-08 10:22:30.483 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : X:

If P: ist online, now following W: delays startup:

2026-08-08 10:54:36.906 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : P
2026-08-08 10:54:36.907 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : P:
2026-08-08 10:54:36.916 [Device Manager] - Processing 'P:\' done
2026-08-08 10:54:36.916 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : W
2026-08-08 10:54:57.930 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : W:
2026-08-08 10:54:57.944 [Device Manager] - Processing 'W:\' done
2026-08-08 10:54:57.944 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : X
2026-08-08 10:54:57.946 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : X:

Can I change this behavior regarding network drives via configuration?