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Thanks a million Ben!. After reading the thread, "Run as Administrator" solved the problem. Now runs slick as glass... Not sure why this should be necessary though, this is new hand built computer, CA is the only 'major' program running at present...

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The issue is related to User Access Control (UAC) on Windows - An alternate solution to running as administrator is to install into a folder other than the standard program files directory.

 

As Doug stated a fix, we hope will solve this, has been obtained and we are targeting it for the next update.

 

For those that don't know, UAC is a security measure introduced by Microsoft for windows Vista which caused much angst when initially released. It prevents programs without administrative access from writing to a directory where programs are installed. The idea being that programs that are installed don't ever need to change unless you are reinstalling or upgrading.

 

Data that needs to be changed is stored in a different location.

 

In this instance the help program for X6 (assistant.exe) is opening the help database for read and write access. In reality it only needs read access.

 

At any rate we have identified this as one problem for slow opening help files.

 

Another problem is virus scanners. In some cases real time virus protection can cause slowness as well.

 

The primary cause, we believe, is the bug.

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