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I recently got a new PC(laptop) and installed cygwin on it, latest version as of today. For some reason cygwin behaves strangely. When i open the cygwin console or when i type commands in regular cmd.exe shell it takes like couple of minutes for the command to respond. I have cygwin on 2-3 pcs already at work and non behaved like that. once the cygwin terminal is open (mintty) command runs ok on it, but in the cmd it keeps hanging for 3-4 minutes! any idea why ? i thought it might be the antivirus, disabled it and still same behavior.

anyone got any idea ? (tried removing, reinstalling, removing registry keys and then resintalling, nothing helped for the first few times it worked ok, then all of the sudden it hangs again)

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Try upgrading the cygwin package (only) to the current test release, 1.7.35-0.2. A problem with slow startup has been reported on the Cygwin mailing list, and the test release has improvements to address it.

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  • looks like that did the trick, at least for now, i hope the next restart it will still be ok.
    – codeScriber
    Commented Feb 17, 2015 at 8:52

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