Something else you can check in Windows 7 is if you truly have the program running as administrator. Although if you click the 'Advanced' tab under properties on the shortcut you can select 'Run as administrator', I don't think this truly runs the program itself as an administrator.

If you go into the Program Files directory for PP2012 and click the PoserPro.exe file, bring up properties and look at the Compatibility tab. Where it says Privelege Level, check 'Run as administrator' there and the program itself and not just the shortcut is running as administrator.

I tried it on PP2012 and it launches far quicker than it used to. I also tried it on other programs that were slow and they were better too.

Try it for yourselves

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