Speed up Trillian start up
June 16th, 2007 | by useful | in Useful Tips |Trillian is the best IM client that links together multiple services. I currently use it for multiple AIM accounts, MSN and my old ICQ account. The only problem I have with trillian is that I have to wait for it to reload whenever I reboot my computer. I decided to take action into my own hands and neutred its plugins so that it would load in under a second instead of 5-10 seconds.
In the Trillian directory I renamed all the features I don’t use:
- crypto.dll
- proxy.dll
- plugins\av.dll - by far the biggest slowdown
- plugins\irc.dll - mIRC for me.
- plugins\http.dll
This removed a good 8 seconds off the time required to start Trillian. I’d recommend it for anyone that sees the Trillian splash screen when they start windows. Also remember if you update Trillian you will need to remove or rename these files again.
June 16th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
You can actually turn off some of those plugins via the settings menu, irc for sure.
June 17th, 2007 at 2:18 am
Yes you can turn off some of the client plugins. The biggest problem I had was the audio/video plugin. It loaded and slowed down the startup significantly.
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