Slow load times for Word add-in due to Fusion Logging

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Slow load times for Word add-in due to Fusion Logging
How I solved the much-discussed slow load time problem by using a solution not mentioned anywhere else 
Ido Kalir




Posts: 2
 Joined: 2015-05-15
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to share the solution I found for my own slow-load-times problem.
I have an Add-In Express add-in for MS Word (2000 and up, installed for all users). The add-in would take around 8 seconds to load, sometimes more.
I read all the material on this issue, including this post on the add-in express forum and this post from MSDN.
However, in my case, I was running a .Net 4.0 add-in, so CRL wasn't an issue (plus I disabled it just to check). There were no performance issues with the server, and no other add-ins or macros were being loaded.
And here is the solution to this problem: by trial and error, I found out that Fusion Logging, which was enabled on the server, had created many bloated logs that reached several hundreds of MB.
Once I deleted these logs (and still had Fusion Logging on), loading speed changed from more than 8 seconds, to less than 1.5 seconds.
I don't know why a bloated fusion log would cause this, but it did. I later disabled fusion logging altogether because it wasn't needed.
But just in case someone else comes across this problem, this is how I resolved it.

Cheers,
Ido Kalir
Posted 15 May, 2015 05:58:40 Top
Andrei Smolin


Add-in Express team


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 Joined: 2006-05-11
Thank you, Ido!

We updated the manual, see section Delays at startup at https://www.add-in-express.com/docs/net-tips.php#delays.

Many thanks!

Regards from Belarus (GMT+3),

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 15 May, 2015 06:34:52 Top
Ido Kalir




Posts: 2
 Joined: 2015-05-15
Andrei - that's awesome. Hope this helps someone in the future.
Posted 15 May, 2015 06:52:10 Top