Wildfire boot times

Hi All

When I boot Wildfire after a cold start of my machine (P4-2Gig laptop) it
takes well over a minute. If I shut WF down and then reboot it launches in
about 10 seconds. The licence is local (on my machine). What is it
initiating that takes so long on the first boot?? Can I speed this up?
Why bother ?? I lecture in the use of ProE so when I cart my computer to
lectures it does the long boot for ProE which is very annoying.

 

: Hi All
:
: When I boot Wildfire after a cold start of my machine (P4-2Gig laptop) it
: takes well over a minute. If I shut WF down and then reboot it launches in
: about 10 seconds. The licence is local (on my machine). What is it
: initiating that takes so long on the first boot?? Can I speed this up?
: Why bother ?? I lecture in the use of ProE so when I cart my computer to
: lectures it does the long boot for ProE which is very annoying.
:
: --
: Cheers
:
: Bill
:
Pro/e is a heavily networked program. On launching, 4 modules (nmsd, xtop,
pro_comm_message, pglclock) try to establish network connections and between them,
open half a dozen ports, local and remote. If, when you boot, you normally open
with the browser window open and connected to the PTC website, you definitely need
an internet connection. If you have no connection, run into firewalls on networks
you plug into or are in any way restricted from internet access, you could have
trouble loading Pro/e. I'd say you'd be especially prone to this on the road. Why
it may reload more quickly the second time is that key pieces of communication
software inside of Pro/e stay resident for a period of time after shutting down
the program and ports they opened stay open as long as they stay resident, marked
as time_wait.

David Janes