Problems at launch tme

[joan]

Hi!

I have a problem with FileMaker running on Windows 2000: it takes more than 5 minutes to launch. It happens on two different machines, having FM v5 and v6, whereas it doesn't happen on other computers on our network.

Anyone with a similar experience can help?

[Anatoli]

Number of fonts?

Network problem?

Corrupted installation?

[Will]

Could be a profile problem. Create a new local user account on one of the PCs that is having the problem. Log in with the new account and see what happens when you open FileMaker.

[Anatoli]

Also number of temp files

[joan]

Hi,

First of all, thanks, it was helpful.

I created a new local user and, by using this one, FileMaker works with no apparent problem.

The question is then: How do I "repair" the user profile that makes FileMaker to missbehave?

With regard to fonts, temps, etc. I already cleaned up the Fonts Folder (I just left some 15 fonts); did all the "classical maintenance" (temp file clean-up, disk check, disk defrag). That didn't make any difference.

I unistalled FileMaker, uninstalled [not just disable] also Norton Antivirus (just in case), and reinstalled again. It didn't make any difference either.

I checked by means of "FileMon.exe" (a file monitoring utility) what was behind the scenes. FileMaker was creating *lots* of temporary files, then deleting them. (I would say that 3 or 4 per second for around 5 minutes. That would make some 1200 files).

Thanks and regards

[Will]

I'm not sure why it happens. I've tried deleting all the filemaker specific entries in the profile with no luck. I have 100 or so users and it doesn't happen often so I just recreate the profile for them when it does happen.