I have struggled, literally for years, with Quicken being dog slow to start. It could take 30+ seconds to start. From what I could remember, this problem has existed since I first installed Windows 10.
The title gives the answer away, but yes, it’s exactly what it says – some applications on Windows will load every single font on the system before loading the rest of the application. If you have a lot of fonts – say, because you’re a designer or illustrator or whatever – you’re going to feel this.
I do not run windows any morw, but i remember both XP and windows 7 booting fater after removing all non-latin fonts. and adobe illustrator ran faster with less fonts. Maybe the problem is not new.
Interesting. It makes sense than scanning fonts is slow, but certainly the results could be cached so it only happens once and not every time. I wonder if this is the fault of individual application devs or if there is a common OS library that they’re using that scans all the fonts on every startup as a GUI library might conceivably do.
I know that The Gimp (Windows version) has this problem, too. Very annoying.