Re: Slowdown on Emacs 24.3 (Windows)

> From: "Elizabeth Wootten" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:11:08 +0100
> 
> As soon as I run the .exe, the console host and emacs processes appear in
> the task manager, but other than that nothing visibly happens. After a few
> minutes, a window shows up with window furniture, but is blank and
> unresponsive - even the Windows 'x' to close it does nothing. After some
> more minutes, the emacs splashscreen is displayed, and after some more
> minutes it becomes responsive. 
> 
> This morning, after a reboot, emacs was the first thing I ran and it behaved
> completely normally - started up, allowed me to open and edit a file,
> closed. No noticeable delays at all. It started up again immediately on a
> second attempt, but then didn't respond to commands for several minutes
> (when it did, I closed it).
> 
> I've just made my third attempt, and was about 6 minutes between starting
> the .exe and seeing a blank window. It's now been another five or so, and
> it's still blank. (By "blank" I mean it has the normal Windows furniture,
> the emacs File/Edit/Options/etc menus, and then a large white space. The
> usual bar towards the bottom indicating the current buffer, line number, etc
> isn't present.)

If you type "net stop netlogon" from a cmd window, does the problem go
away?