Hi James, I think it is most likely caused by some recent change(s) in the system. You can try the following: 1. Try to run vDosPlus with the default config.txt, autoexec.txt and 4dos.ini files. It is possible that a recent change in one of the config files can cause issue(s). 2. Try to temporarily disable any anti-virus utility and close other program(s) that may interfere with vDosPlus. Some antivirus utilities are known to cause delays of running other programs. 3. Restarting Windows may sometimes fix such issues. If not, you can try reinstall vDosPlus, which may fix the problem too. Hope this helps, Wengier > On Apr 5, 2020, at 2:12 PM, James Woolley <woolleyj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm using the 17 Oct. 2017 build of vDosPlus under Win10. On my machine it usually loads in 2-3 seconds. But in the last couple of weeks, it has *often* been taking much longer to load--31 or 32 seconds (with no error message or sign of life until, suddenly, it's there). Any idea why this might be happening? > > Thanks. > > James > >