[BUG] - All start-up apps take very long time to start (except one)

[l-t-k]

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Description

The start-up apps take very long time to start. I tried four different scenario's, but I can't figure out what the problem is. Based on the results of these scenario's there isn't a app in particular that is causing the problems, so it should be a Windows problem.

The weird thing is that all apps are slow, except one: forticlientvpn. That one loads instantly after login to Windows. Screenshot from autoruns (this one start through a service and not through the common startup proces of windows!):

Installed forticlient after I was already facing this issue so this app can't be the problem.

Steps to reproduce

Scenario 1 --> Took 1 minute (!) before the first app showed up in the taskbar. All apps were started after 1 minute and 57 seconds (!) Scenario 2 --> 40 seconds after the first app showed up in the taskbar. All apps were started after 1 minute and 55 seconds. Scenario 3 --> 41 seconds after the first app showed up in the taskbar. All apps were started after 1 minute and 30 seconds. Scenario 4 --> 34 seconds after the first app showed up in the taskbar. All apps were started after 1 minute.

Starting scenario, all my default start-up apps enabled:

Disabled apps in scenario's:

• DisplayControl (disabled in 3)
• Everything (disabled in 1)
• ProtonPass (disabled in 2)
• ProtonDrive (disabled in 2)
• ProtonVPN (disabled in 4)
• Cryptomator
• Flow.Launcher (disabled in 1)
• Sharex
• RtkAudUService64.exe (disabled in 4)

Expected behavior

Like the forticlient application, all the apps should start instantly after login into my account.

Actual behavior

The apps take way to long to start up.

Atlas Edition

Atlas for Windows 11 23H2

Desktop information

Device = laptop (Laptop = HP Spectre x360 14-eu0045nd 2-in-1 Laptop) Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 155H 3.80 GHz 32,0 GB SSD --> SKU = KXG80ZNV1T02 GPU = CPU

Additional content

Installed AtlasOS on a clean reinstalled Windows without any errors. All the apps are installed with chocolatey.

[kamild1996]

This might not be an Atlas issue - I fought with something like this on stock Windows. See if this helps you:

Regedit: "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\" Create a key with name "Serialize" Create REG_DWORD value in it with name "WaitForIdleState" (case-sensitive!) with value 0. Reboot and check.

[l-t-k]

Very nice, that fixed it! Will close this one for now.

@kamild1996 Thanks a lot!!

[kamild1996]

On second thought, how bad of an idea would be to include this registry tweak as part of Atlas? And if so, would it be always activated, or optional?