For the longest time I couldn't figure out why Trip, which used to load instantly, was taking almost a second to load, making it totally useless. I tried many many things (mostly recompiling with combinations of switches I'd never heard of), until I finally realised, not 10 minutes ago, that the common item between the computers upon which it is slow is the presence of a virus scanner.
After some testing, it appears that the scanners (AVG and whatever the Symantec one is) scan Trip each and every time it's run, causing all sorts of bothersome delays. So if you're experiencing troubles, try turning virus scanning off for just the Trip file (if possible).
There's still a slightly odd bug where Trip randomly likes to take 10 seconds to start up. Suggestions appreciated.
I've also uploaded a new version to the Trip homepage, the only difference is that it's now static-linked, so it shouldn't require MSVCRT71.dll. EXCITING STUFF!
UPDATE: I have tracked the problem to MS Anti Spyware, although other 'realtime' spyware/virus scanners may also cause delays:
Microsoft antispyware's security agent causes intolerable delays to Trip's startup time, making it mostly useless - deactivating the agents one by one does not help - you have to disable all of them via the tray menu's 'Security Agents Status > Disable' option...
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