Re: Octave is really slow and “not responding”

[susisanssouci]

Dear Kai,

thanks for your answer,

I don't think there is anything special about my OS. I use Sophos
Antivirus, but no special persmissions, etc. Unfortunately, I don't own
a second PC.

I'm sorry for the bad formatting of my first message.

Best,

Max


Am 30.04.2020 um 17:10 schrieb Kai Torben Ohlhus:
> On 4/30/20 10:18 PM, Max Schulz wrote:
>> Hello Everybody,
>>
>> I installed Octave 5.2.0_1 64 bit on Windows 10 via the installer. The
>> Octave GUI starts really slow (>20s). When I try moving the window or
>> creating a new file, Octave freezes for several minutes and sometimes shows
>> the message "The application is not responding" .
>>  things I tried:
>>  
>>   
>> Looking at CPU and RAM usage, found no problem there  
>> restarting the PC  
>> reinstalling Octave, also deleting the folder "octave" in
>> C:\CurrentUser.config\ before reinstalling     
>> downloading zip and starting from octave.vbs (same problem)  
>> Octave also doesn't find JRE, so I tried this: 
>> stackoverflow.com:Octave-cant-find-jre-while-i-have-installed-jre
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58815879/octave-cant-find-jre-while-i-have-installed-jre>
>>  
>> , but I can't  find "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime
>> Environment\"  
>> I already had Octave 5.1.0 installed on this PC some time ago and it worked
>> fine. I thought maybe there are old files, which cause conflicts. I searched
>> for old Octave files, but I found none.
>>  Hopefully, I posted this at the right place, if not please correct me.
>> Thanks for your time and help.
>>
>> Best,
>> Max
>>
>
> Dear Max,
>
> Thank you for your report.  Is there anything special about your MS
> Windows 10 system?  E.g. installed on a network-drive, special
> permission management (work PC), extra malware "anti-virus" software?
> Do you face the same problems on another PC of yours, too?
>
> Best,
> Kai