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Geoff777

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Jun 17, 2020
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The M2 Studio Max I have normally starts up very quickly (say 10 to 15 seconds).
Since yesterday it's taking a lot longer, about a minute.
The progress bar gets to about half way and then hangs for ages.

I installed SurfShark a couple of days ago so I've gone into settings and switched it all off.
Done some more tests and still taking a long time.

Any ideas on what might be wrong welcomed!
 
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I fixed it. Although I'd turned the obvious things off in Settings there were a few I'd missed - General / login / Endpoint Security extension, General / Login / Network extensions and another one that was titled "start on demand" or something but I can't remember where that was! Anyway it's back to super-fast startup again. and I'll just switch surfShark back on when really needed, which isn't often.
 
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