Friday, 4 January 2019

How to cut down Logos 8's start up time

Faithlife's Logos 8 was released just before Christmas.  

One of the first thing's I noticed after installing it was how long it took to load up.  I don't have a huge collection of books (about 7GB) but it took over a couple of minutes to load.  

Painful.  

Logos 7 was sometimes slow too but I noticed this mostly around searches, I'm glad to report that searching resources seems much slower in 8.  

Here's a fix for greatly speeding up Logos's start up time:
  1. Open Program Settings, find At Startup Open to and select Most recent layout - local

  2. In the Command Box at the top of the Logos Window (with green GO in Logos 8), type Set Use Ngen to Yes and hit Enter.
My load up time fell to around 20 seconds.  Nice.