New Windows option in 7.9 to make Logos faster

I cannot get it to run. It keeps saying "The system cannot find the path specified." 

You really need to make this easier and clearer. Very frustrating!

`[logosinstallpath]\Logos.exe /ngen`

`[logosinstallpath]\Logos.exe /ngen`

[logosinstallpath] should be replaced with the path to your logos directory where it was installed.

You can determine the path a number of ways.

Right click on your Logos shortcut.

Click Properties on the menu.

Copy the text in "target" (for me it is C:\Users\Pastor\AppData\Local\Logos\Logos.exe". 

In the command prompt, paste that followed by " /ngen".

You can run a command prompt and execute the command:

REG QUERY HKCU\Software\Logos4\ /v InstallDirectory

Or...... here's a two minute hack, shamelessly stealing code from Faithlife's SmartTags script.

1682.LogosNGEN.zip

Unzip that script to your desktop. Right Click on it and select Run with Powershell. It will run the proper command for you.

Unlike others here, I have found running "ngen" to consistently cause my startup to be slower than it was before, both from a fresh boot and from restarts within a boot (faster because of cache). I am keeping it off.

Likewise. Is there a reason for this?

Yes, it is as slow or slower for me, too. I certainly can detect no speedier startup.

Thank you! This was very helpful! 

I have restarted the program about 3 times. The first time, there was no difference in speed. The second and third time it loaded within 5-10 seconds.

Thank you again! God's blessings on your day!

Yup, 

That's the missing ingredient.

I restarted my computer, the program, etc. multiple times. But, I will try again... Then, Logos crashed and produced an error log... I'll include it later.

You don't need to restart your computer. I found it essential to follow Andrew's advice above explicitly. In addition, Justin's instructions below add to the facility of the process.

To add the refinement mentioned by Pieter, I would just open Notepad and paste the script (C:\Users\Pastor\AppData\Local\Logos\Logos.exe /ngen) into it and save it on the desktop as LogosSpeed.bat. From now on, you can double click that with each new Logos update to take advantage of the speed improvement.

4) Create a link in logos on toolbar

How do you do that?

I just tried the ngen command and it makes L7 open faster on my Win desktop which still uses a conventional hard drive. [Y][8-|]

My first start up after I turned my computer on today was 3 minutes and change. That's a lot! However, after everything is up and running, I close the application, let it sync and it starts up a little faster than what it used to. Oh well! Maybe someday they'll figure out how to really speed up the program. Patience 👍😁👌

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Really surprised that FL went down this road,  Hopefully this type of temporary Band-Aid will be used infrequently.

After running the command, I see a slight speed improvement.  Startup time had been running 20-23 seconds--now it's 16-20 seconds.  In comparison, Accordance startup time runs 8-9 seconds with more resources open.  I will always be thankful for any improvement in startup time and of course in general response time as well, once Logos is running, so I would love to see Logos on par with Accordance startup and response time.

But I switched to a SSD about two years ago, and that cut my Logos startup time to less than half of what it had been before.  I can't speak to how it would have affected Accordance because I didn't have Accordance when using a HDD.  But I'm also running a current gen I7 with 16 GB RAM, so between that and the SSD, I'd be very disappointed if Logos took much longer to open than it does now, and/or if response was any slower than it is now once it's running.

Bottom line for me ...thank you Faithlife for continuing to work on this.  Please keep at it.  For me, 16-20 seconds is acceptable--8-9 seconds would be very nice.