hi, I wondered if there was any useful info in the logs previous - I have attached new logs. This has been mostly taking a couple of minutes since my original post in Feb, However, today loading is extremely slow again - 1hour and 40mins. If I omit some of the directories it can be quicker, but of course I do not want to omit my precious plugins. PC resource manager is showing loads of free memory, and low CPU usage during the scan. I also ran CCleaner Pro to cleanup my registry a