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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I am experiencing very slow startup of all of my freepascal programs for windows on just one computer. Normally they all start pretty much instantly, but I just got a brand new Dell XPS desktop computer and they are all starting up VERY slowly, even simple console programs…. Even ‘Hello World’ take over 50 full seconds to start, even when running from a RAM Drive. Does anyone have any idea what could be going on to cause such a slowdown? They all run faster than this on an ancient XP computer, I don’t understand what’s taking so long on this new PC. All my programs are compiled with FPC 3.0.4rc1 and normally start instantly even on my slowest windows tablet pc… except for this new computer, and everything else on this computer starts very fast, it’s only all of my freepascal programs that start very very slow. Once my programs finally…… eventually…. Get around to starting, they execute just fine, no further delay in processing, disk access, or graphics. I thought it might be smart screen or a virus scanner causing the delay, so I turned those off, still have a huge delay. No matter what I do, every freepascal program I have ALWAYS takes at least 50 seconds to start on this system.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The system is this one: <a href="https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/desktop-and-all-in-one-pcs/xps-tower-special-edition/spd/xps-8930-se-desktop/cto8930w10pcfl4h?ref=569_prodTitle">https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/desktop-and-all-in-one-pcs/xps-tower-special-edition/spd/xps-8930-se-desktop/cto8930w10pcfl4h?ref=569_prodTitle</a> but it has been upgraded to 64GB of RAM, and a solid state hard drive. The processor is Intel Core i7-8700K @3.7GHz and is running windows 10 Pro 64bit. This should be the fastest computer I have, yet it’s the only one with this issue.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello world program is this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Begin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Writeln('Hello World');<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Readln;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>End.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any ideas on what may be going on? This is pretty much un-usable with these huge delays every time I need to start one of my freepascal programs. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>