SolidWorks 2010 was a significant release in the history of the CAD software. Released in late 2009, it marked the 18th version of the software. It focused heavily on "speed" and "efficiency," introducing tools that are now standard in modern engineering design.
A major reason for slow "Startimes" is the SolidWorks Toolbox attempting to index hardware libraries over a network. Solidworks 2010 startimes
One of the most famous bugs in SolidWorks 2010 involved the Welcome dialog taking 45+ seconds to load. SolidWorks 2010 was a significant release in the
In 2010, a top-of-the-line workstation had a Core i7-920 (first gen), 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and a spinning 7200RPM HDD. Solidworks 2010 was massive—over 5GB installed. This clears stale processes that hang during the
The "Startime" issue was primarily caused by three bottlenecks:
Veteran users created a batch script to kill background processes before launch. Create a .bat file with:
taskkill /f /im sldworks.exe /im swBOOTSTRAP.exe /im swSAserver.exe
net stop "Solidworks Licensing Service"
start "" "C:\Program Files\Solidworks 2010\sldworks.exe"
This clears stale processes that hang during the previous startime cycle.