wine users - Aug 2009 - Wine Unbearably Slow

After using Wine without any significant hitches for over a year, I've just
come across one. Every time I load any application (even winecfg), it takes
between thirty seconds to one minute for it to load. During this time, normal
functions take forever or don't work at all (selecting folders, opening a
file, etc.). Sometimes it will load and work just fine, but often the program
continues to wreak havoc by slowing down the system several minutes after
closing the program. Based on some searching I did, I've attempted the
following thus far:

- Upgraded Wine version from 1.1.24 to 1.1.26
- Changed a bunch of things in winecfg - OS emulation, disabled audio, unchecked
the boxes for allowing the window manager to control the windows, emulated
virtual desktop, yadda, yadda...
- Removed old software and some folders created during an attempt to get DirectX
working in Wine
- Disabled all desktop effects
- Ran the commands for uninstalling per the FAQ, wiped out my ~/.wine and
~/.PlayOnLinux directories and installed v 1.0.1 fresh

Since the last step, I tested notepad and it seems to have the same problem. I
plan on using bottles with PlayonLinux later to avoid these issues, but the
loading times are killing me. Did I miss something in the steps I took?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I have a Virtualbox running XP, but
really prefer to keep my applications running in Wine whenever possible.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:37 PM, MrDelish<wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> After using Wine without any significant hitches for over a year, I've
just come across one. Every time I load any application (even winecfg), it takes
between thirty seconds to one minute for it to load. During this time, normal
functions take forever or don't work at all (selecting folders, opening a
file, etc.). Sometimes it will load and work just fine, but often the program
continues to wreak havoc by slowing down the system several minutes after
closing the program. Based on some searching I did, I've attempted the
following thus far:
Do you have any network printers?

-- 
-Austin

Nope, no networking to speak of. I've only plugged a Canon USB printer in
directly into it a handful of times. Is there something I could disable to see
if it's interfering? More than happy to give it a try...

MrDelish wrote:
> Every time I load any application (even winecfg), it takes between thirty
seconds to one minute for it to load.
Run this and check how it works. Also post complete terminal output it
generates:

Code:
WINEPREFIX=~/wine_test wine winecfg