Anne-Sophie Fradier 

Do not store files on desktop, this is usually located somewhere on your drive c: together with Windows and other programs.

Store ALL files, including TMs and TBs, on your local hard drive other than c: This hard drive should be a SSD or better a NVM SSD.

What are your hardware specs?

Hi Jerzy

Thank you for your prompt reply! And I meant "on my laptop", not "on my desktop", sorry. My files are located in a very normal folder e.g. C:\Users\asfra\Documents\Work\Client\etc.

My local hard drive has ,only one partition, C:, and I don't see any reason why I would create a specific partition for my files and document. C: is good enough for system files and regular Document folders. It's a 512GB SSD, and I have 16GB of RAM (I bought this ASUS laptop last year).

Like I said, I never had these issues before, and I'm quite certain my hardware spec have nothing to to with it. Trados Studio 2021 works fine!

Anne-Sophie Fradier 

Keeping files on c: without any backup is like suicid. Should your Windows crash and you would need to reinstall it, ALL files can be lost. HAving an extra partition for files is not a bad idea.

How much free space is located on your HDD? Which kind of processor is installed in your laptop?

I mean it, hardware is no the issue. My SSD is 50% empty and I have a 4-core Intel i7 processor. My laptop is recent and I'm quite good at choosing specs for my hardware.

Since you seem so worried about my PC crashing, please rest assured I have backups. Like cloud, or external drives. This is not the issue here. And I don't have any antivirus on (I trust Microsoft better than 3rd parties on this), so antivirus is not the issue either.

I was wondering if someone had encountered the same issue and had noticed some option or setting in Trados was the culprit.

Anne-Sophie Fradier said:

And I don't have any antivirus on (I trust Microsoft better than 3rd parties on this), so antivirus is not the issue either.

Hi Anne-Sophie,

Microsoft Windows Security includes antivirus. Do you have your Trados software (Studio and MultiTerm) added to your exclusions list? If not, this could be the problem.

All the best,

Ali

Thank you Alison, I had never thought of it that way! Will try asap

Anne-Sophie Fradier 

Thumbs up for the backups, this is perfect.

Unfortunately, your hardware is a part of the issue. A 4 core Intel means i3 and these are weak. Trados Studio eats a lot of ressources. IMO you need an i5 or better an i7. Even my i7-1250U is not really very perfomant. And if the opening takes so much time, there is somewhere an issue in your file management. This indeed may be caused by the MS Security, checking the files as they open.

On my desktop I have i9-11900K and even this one can be slow, when opening files with 20,000+ segments. And it gets slower, if you open many (even small) files in a virtual merge.

Thank you Jerzy, yes I'm looking into MS Security, following Alison Field 's advice. My CPU is an i7 by the way, 4-core 8-threads.

Anne-Sophie Fradier 

So your processor is an i7 U, similar to mine. Opening files takes here also longer as on the desktop.

Beside the MS Security Option check also you energy settings. Most probably your PC is set up to allow to drop the processor down to 30% of its power. I changed this to 100% with external power supply and 70% when working with battery. This made things a little better.

But I know, when I will buy a new laptop, I shall by all means avoid an U processor. These are low-voltage processors, but not as powerfull as their desktop companions. So an i7 in a laptop is not the same as i7 in a desktop and the difference might be huge. As already stated, an older i9-11900K is much (really much) faster than the newer i7-1250U.

Thank you, trying my "high performance" mode, too! It was set on "average". Still doesn't explain why the same action only takes a few seconds in Trados Studio 2021 though