# version 10.5.0.41 Toad takes 3 minutes to launch **URL:** \ **Category:** Toad for Oracle & DevOps Toolkit\ **Created:** [September 21, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/version-10-5-0-41-toad-takes-3-minutes-to-launch/10698 "2011-09-21T18:10:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Guest](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Guest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/version-10-5-0-41-toad-takes-3-minutes-to-launch/10698/1 "2011-09-21T18:10:18Z")
Has anyone come across this issue? My Toad take 3+ minutes to launch. All my other applications on the laptop are very responsive. Windows XP Service pack 3 4 GB RAM Dual Core ~2659 MHz processor Cleared out all temp directories, no effect. Any help will be appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![GTDG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/gtdg/32/140_2.png) [@GTDG](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/GTDG)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/version-10-5-0-41-toad-takes-3-minutes-to-launch/10698/2 "2011-09-21T18:23:00Z")
Mcafee? On Sep 21, 2011, at 7:11 PM, "justoracledba" wrote: > Has anyone come across this issue? My Toad take 3+ minutes to launch. All my other applications on the laptop are very responsive. > > Windows XP Service pack 3 > 4 GB RAM > Dual Core ~2659 MHz processor > > Cleared out all temp directories, no effect. Any help will be appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![Bert\_Scalzo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/bert_scalzo/32/274_2.png) [@Bert\_Scalzo](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Bert_Scalzo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/version-10-5-0-41-toad-takes-3-minutes-to-launch/10698/3 "2011-09-22T06:59:26Z")
We have seen that some anti-virus programs (e.g. McAfee and any who’s underlying technology is licensed from them). The easy fix is simply to add Toad to your AV white list under options. We’ve already told McAfee and they have added info to their support site. But even if you are using something else for AV – try the whitelist solution. ---
**Author:** ![Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Guest](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Guest)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/version-10-5-0-41-toad-takes-3-minutes-to-launch/10698/4 "2011-09-25T02:18:36Z")
I got extra.dat from mcafee’s website but it did not seem to help. Here is the information from my ToadDebug.txt after I turned on debug: 02:10:49:984 Initializing application 02:10:50:062 Creating GlobalDataModule 02:13:59:421 Performing Toad’s startup tasks 02:13:59:437 Setting Toad help file 02:13:59:452 Setting global options 02:13:59:452 Updating license key file with app info 02:13:59:468 Loading Formatter Plus 02:13:59:780 Creating main window 02:13:59:796 Create Bitmaps Form 02:14:00:421 Restoring dock layout 02:14:00:452 Checking for Spotlight 02:14:00:484 Checking for SQL Impact 02:14:00:484 Initializing Team Coding 02:14:00:499 Building quick scripts menu 02:14:00:499 Building external tools menu 02:14:00:530 Enabling features based on license 02:14:00:546 Restoring size and position 02:14:00:546 Performing Toad’s command line tasks 02:14:00:546 Application.Run There is a long pause after Creating GlobalDataModule line … ---
**Author:** ![Bert\_Scalzo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/bert_scalzo/32/274_2.png) [@Bert\_Scalzo](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Bert_Scalzo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/version-10-5-0-41-toad-takes-3-minutes-to-launch/10698/5 "2011-09-25T08:43:32Z")
Getting the new dat file will not help – McAfee has a known issue which you can read about on their support site – the only work around until they fix this is to whitelist toad. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Lerch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/mark_lerch/32/33_2.png) [@Mark\_Lerch](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Mark_Lerch)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 9:25am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/version-10-5-0-41-toad-takes-3-minutes-to-launch/10698/6 "2011-09-25T09:25:53Z")
There’s quite a lot happening after line 2 and before line 3. Our debug comments aren’t nearly granular enough ---
**Author:** ![JohnDorlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/johndorlon/32/9997_2.png) [@JohnDorlon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/JohnDorlon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/version-10-5-0-41-toad-takes-3-minutes-to-launch/10698/7 "2011-09-26T08:38:11Z")
Check and see if you have any network resource not available (mapped drive or network printer), or if maybe your task scheduler service isn’t running. These aren’t problems anymore, but they were at some point. Not sure if 10.5 was affected or not. ---
**Author:** ![JohnDorlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/johndorlon/32/9997_2.png) [@JohnDorlon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/JohnDorlon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/version-10-5-0-41-toad-takes-3-minutes-to-launch/10698/8 "2011-09-26T08:39:09Z")
This doesn’t appear to be the McAfee problem. That delay happened before the “Initializing application” line. ---
**Author:** ![Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Guest](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Guest)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/version-10-5-0-41-toad-takes-3-minutes-to-launch/10698/9 "2011-09-27T10:04:18Z")
Thanks for everyone’s help. The issue was with my home wireless printer. Somehow in the ‘printers and faxes’ group, I had two entries for the same printer. I realized that while printing a document from Adobe Reader, adobe experienced exact same delay before opening up the print dialog. Both Toad and Adobe’s print dialog open up in 2-3 seconds after removing that erroneous printer entry.