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# Improve Remote Desktop Manager startup performance
If you are experiencing slow startup times, the following solutions can help speed up application readiness.
Before troubleshooting, validate application performance with an empty workspace by creating a new empty XML workspace and setting it as the current one.
### Slow startup: optimize UI performance settings
1. In Remote Desktop Manager, go to ***File*** – ***Settings*** – ***Performance***.
2. Set ***Hardware acceleration*** to ***DirectX*** and ***Optimize UI performance*** to ***Yes***.
3. ***Save*** your changes, then restart Remote Desktop Manager to apply them.
### Slow startup on offline machines: disable code signature validation
Remote Desktop Manager is signed with a code signature that is validated at startup. On machines without internet access, the application waits for a response from the certificate authority until a timeout occurs. For more background, refer to these Microsoft articles:
* [Improving application Start up time: GeneratePublisherEvidence setting in Machine.config](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/amolravande/improving-application-start-up-time-generatepublisherevidence-setting-in-machine-config)
* [The Case of the Slow Keynote Demo](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/markrussinovich/the-case-of-the-slow-keynote-demo)
To work around this, create a text file named `RemoteDesktopManager.exe.config` in the Remote Desktop Manager installation folder with the following content:
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### Slow due to internet requests: disable analytics on startup
Each time Remote Desktop Manager starts, it attempts to connect to the Devolutions website to fetch news. Disabling this behavior prevents the application from making those requests.
The easiest way to do this is through the UI: go to ***File*** – ***Settings*** – ***Advanced*** and toggle on the ***Disable telemetry*** option.
Alternatively, you can add `true` directly to your [**RemoteDesktopManager.cfg** file](https://docs.devolutions.net/rdm/installation/client/configuration-file-location/), placing it above the closing `` tag.
To locate the configuration file, navigate to ***File*** – ***Settings*** – ***Advanced*** in Remote Desktop Manager and click on the hyperlink at the bottom of the window.
### Slow due to antivirus interference: exclude Remote Desktop Manager from monitoring
If the profiler log shows a slowdown of 10 to 30 seconds during one of the three offline loading stages, an antivirus may be restricting access to the application path. Allowlisting the path can significantly reduce startup times.
To isolate whether the antivirus is the cause, temporarily disable its protection under controlled conditions: close all browsers, keep only essential applications running, and limit the test to a short duration. If your antivirus allows it, disable monitoring specifically for Remote Desktop Manager's installation folder rather than turning off protection entirely.
Note that this is a diagnostic step only; there is nothing we can do to address antivirus interference directly. We do not recommend disabling antivirus protection in risky conditions.
### Slow on standard build: install a ReadyToRun build
On the [Download center page](https://devolutions.net/download-center/), select Remote Desktop Manager and download a ***Windows .7z*** build, either ***x64*** or ***arm64***. These builds offer significantly better startup performance than standard builds.
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