After Effects taking 13 miutes to boot

[Matt Howarth - Puppetman]

hi all

Can anyone suggest how I might speed up After Effects booting ? From clicking the icon to actually being able to do anything takes my laptop 13 minutes now. The laptop is quite old these days, but always served me well with AE and this boot time has been progressively getting longer and longer. I confess it could do with a clear out, but will this sort the issue?

My system is:

Operating System

Windows 10 Home (x64) Version 1903 (build 18362.959)
Install Language: English (United Kingdom)
System Locale: English (United Kingdom)
Installed: 25/10/2019 23:08:45
Servicing Branch: Current Branch (CB)
Boot Mode: UEFI with successful Secure Boot

System Model

Acer Aspire V3-772 V1.13
System Serial Number: NXM9VEK002345031647200

Processor a

2.20 gigahertz Intel Core i7-4702MQ
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
6144 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Hyper-threaded (8 total)

Main Circuit Board b

Board: Acer VA70_HW Type2 - Board Version
Serial Number: NBM7411001343001E87200
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
UEFI: Insyde Corp. V1.13 10/11/2013

Drives

980.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
27.50 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ8E0 [Optical drive]

WDC WD10JPVX-22JC3T0 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WXA1A73K3227, rev 01.01A01, SMART Status: Healthy

Memory Modules c,d

16266 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' has 8192 MB (serial number 0A287BDA)
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM1' has 8192 MB (serial number 0A487BDA)
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty

Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0)	980.02 GB	27.50 GB free

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Matt

[Roland Kahlenberg]

AE may be trying to create space for its cache. Try releasing more drive space and set AE's cache to about 50GB. However, ensure you have about another 50 GB for your media which includes pre-renders and final renders. You may also have little contiguous disk space - a disk cleanup should help.

[Matt Howarth - Puppetman]

Hi Roland

thanks for getting back to me, having some specific figures is really useful. 

House keeping is now top of the agenda! : )

cheers

Matt