[impactoz]

So I disabled the Skin Widget - unfortunately it makes no difference - it still hangs.

I turned off scanning for new shows on startup - problem solved, it starts up normally !!!

However, if I manually do a scan, after its all working - thats when it hangs for 5 minutes.... So its either the scanning of the directory or reading of the sql server (they are on different machines presently)... I dont think its the sql server, as if there is no scan on startup, I can look at my list of tv shows and get info about them almost immediately - so its connecting and retrieving info the sql in a good time frame...

The scanning was never a problem in the past - so not sure why now... I suppose I will try a fresh install and see what happens.