# Designer Slow startup (seems to lock up at "Starting module: Perspective") **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [February 4, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-slow-startup-seems-to-lock-up-at-starting-module-perspective/101831 "2025-02-04T12:47:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brian\_Stilson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/brian_stilson/32/73410_2.png) [@Brian\_Stilson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brian_Stilson)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-slow-startup-seems-to-lock-up-at-starting-module-perspective/101831/1 "2025-02-04T12:47:53Z")
I posted about this yesterday, and then my Designer finally loaded and everything was fine. But today, it's happening to another Gateway, not even on my machine. Here's my original post: Fresh download. Fresh install. I set up a single inheritable project. Gateway resides on my local machine (for now), same as the designer. No error messages in the logs. I did have Ignition installed previously, but I uninstalled and restarted my machine before installing again. Whenever I launch the Designer, it just gets stuck at the loading screen where it says "Starting Module: Perspective" It will hang there forever. I've already tried uninstalling, restarting, and reinstalling. The problem isn't going away. The log files tell me nothing. * * * There are no errors in the log files. This happens on my localhost Gateway and on a remote Ignition Edge project. Just, all of the sudden, every project on every Gateway I try to open takes orders of magnitude more time than it used to. It's taking literally 15-30 minutes for Designer to open. Every time. Is anyone else seeing this? ---
**Author:** ![andreas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/andreas/32/18981_2.png) [@andreas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andreas)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-slow-startup-seems-to-lock-up-at-starting-module-perspective/101831/2 "2025-02-04T12:58:58Z")
Hi Brian, Guess it is the same problem that is discussed here: [Ignition Designer Starts Late](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-designer-starts-late/101731) ---
**Author:** ![diamond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@diamond](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diamond)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-slow-startup-seems-to-lock-up-at-starting-module-perspective/101831/3 "2025-02-07T15:20:16Z")
Same problem ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Stilson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/brian_stilson/32/73410_2.png) [@Brian\_Stilson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brian_Stilson)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-slow-startup-seems-to-lock-up-at-starting-module-perspective/101831/4 "2025-02-07T21:31:11Z")
This seems to have worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-slow-startup-seems-to-lock-up-at-starting-module-perspective/101831/5 "2025-02-07T21:48:33Z")
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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-slow-startup-seems-to-lock-up-at-starting-module-perspective/101831/6 "2025-02-07T21:49:01Z")
Please direct further questions on this topic into the main tracking discussion thread: > [@Designer/Perspective Workstation slow startup on Windows - advisory and recommended hotfix](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-perspective-workstation-slow-startup-on-windows-advisory-and-recommended-hotfix/101848): > > Recently, a Windows Defender update rolled out that is inadvertently causing dramatically slower launching of the Ignition Designer, Perspective Workstation, and Vision with the Web Browser module installed. This is confirmed to be related to the packaged Chromium browser extraction due to some change in Windows Defender. The remediation options are: Add the directory with Chromium binaries to the whitelist. Rollback the Windows Defender update. Our recommendation is to add the binaries dir…