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MS Skydrive locks up my PC for 10 minutes after booting.
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King of Wishful ThinkingParagon City, RIRegistered User regular
King of Wishful ThinkingParagon City, RIRegistered User regular
As everyone knows, for all its benefits, MS OS's hate hate hate slow system drive access. They just don't hande it well, especially during startup.
Well, I recently got Skydrive, which is the Microsoft version of DropBox. It keeps a folder and its contents synched with the MS-Cloud, and I have a ton of space for it courtesy of having a ancient paid-up Hotmail subscription.
The problem I'm having is that Skydrive sits in the system tray and "Looks for Changes" on startup. Since I have roughly 4000 files and 40GB of files there, this takes a long time and makes my PC unresponsive for many many minutes every time I boot it.
Perhaps my Google-Fu is weak, but I can't find anyone else that has this problem... is there any way for me to (really) delay the Skydrive app on startup? I've tried simply removing it from starting up with Windows (via Hijack This), and that simply results in it never starting properly and not synching files later (when I start it up manually later). Althought I'd prefer to keep using it, picking another cloud file service might be a good workaround... is there anything that's better than DropBox (of the tiny tiny space alotted per tier)?
Thanks!
Well, I recently got Skydrive, which is the Microsoft version of DropBox. It keeps a folder and its contents synched with the MS-Cloud, and I have a ton of space for it courtesy of having a ancient paid-up Hotmail subscription.
The problem I'm having is that Skydrive sits in the system tray and "Looks for Changes" on startup. Since I have roughly 4000 files and 40GB of files there, this takes a long time and makes my PC unresponsive for many many minutes every time I boot it.
Perhaps my Google-Fu is weak, but I can't find anyone else that has this problem... is there any way for me to (really) delay the Skydrive app on startup? I've tried simply removing it from starting up with Windows (via Hijack This), and that simply results in it never starting properly and not synching files later (when I start it up manually later). Althought I'd prefer to keep using it, picking another cloud file service might be a good workaround... is there anything that's better than DropBox (of the tiny tiny space alotted per tier)?
Thanks!
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Alternatively, 40GB is not a lot of space, so if you are only using it for storage and not sharing the cloud data, I'd get a $50 hard drive that has 500 GB of space and transfer your 40GB to it.
You're right, though, that another USB/eSATA drive might be a lot simpler.