Analytics Platfrom 3.6.0 Loads Extremely Slowly

[ScottF]

As an aside, if you are experiencing slow startup on a Windows machine, you can try adding exceptions to your Windows Defender configuration, as described here:

it takes too long for KNIME to open on windows [Solved]

Hi All, I want to report on a solution so that others benefit too. If you believe this solution helps you, give it a thumbs up. My Knime 3.7.1 with zillions of extensions were getting slower and slower and last time I measured 6,5 minutes to load. 1 or 2 minutes are ok but more than 2 minutes makes using Knime a pain in the neck so I searched the forum for a solution. One gentleman proposed to delete the “metadata” folder in knime workspace. I did it and ta daaa!!! it worked. Knime open…