Lister starts too slow

[Jqn]

Hi,
I've noted Lister starts too slow (with text files) in FIRST call. Successive calls starts more fast.

Why?.

[SanskritFritz]

Only with Lister? Not with notepad for example?
What I suspect is that your hard disk is maybe heavily fragmented, and the second file opening is done from the cache.

[D1P]

Try to disable all lister plugins and repeat (Alt+Shift+F3 load lister without plugins). If will be any acceleration, then it is a some plugin problem (for example, plugin may use incorrect detect string)

[Jqn]

Only with Lister? Not with notepad for example?
What I suspect is that your hard disk is maybe heavily fragmented, and the second file opening is done from the cache.

My disk is not fragmented (Diskeeper runs every night). No other program, only internal Lister, starts slowly.
Lister starts more fast second time, even if first time is closed.

Try to disable all lister plugins and repeat (Alt+Shift+F3 load lister without plugins). If will be any acceleration, then it is a some plugin problem (for example, plugin may use incorrect detect string)

I don't have any lister plugin installed.

[wOxxOm]

1. Start totalCommander anew, so nothing is precached.
2. start filemon from sysinternals [dot] com filtering it to totalcmd.exe
3. see what is loaded when you press AltShiftF3.

if nothing special loads on filesystem level, then repeat the same steps with regmon from sysinternals - it will monitor registry calls.