Hangs while starting

[normandy36]

Can anyone tell me how to keep it from starting up on the MANAGE screen. It takes all of 20 minutes for the blue circle to go away and let me start working.

I assume that it is looking for pictures to populate the thumb nail section which where it is pointing only has 2.

This is without a doubt making the software for me unusable.
paintshop Pro x7,

AMD 6 core processor
16 g mem
1 tb Hdd
2 radeon r9 200 video cards

3 monitors
gigabyte mb.

I have both 32 bit and 64 bit installed, it doesn't matter which one I start

I have tried shift starting and reset to defaults.

[Ken Berry]

As with just about every program I know, you change settings in Preferences. In PSP, go to File > Preferences > General Program Preferences, and in the dialogue box which appears the last item is Default Launch Workspace where you can select the Edit screen as your opening page.

And if you want thumbnails of your images across the bottom of the Edit screen, then right click in the workspace, select Palettes and in the menu which opens tick the box beside Organizer.

[MarkZ]

A couple of other suggestions, in Manage set up only the directories you use most often in Collections (a small sub-set of My Pictures) and have Collections selected when you exit Manage. In Preferences/Manage, Uncataolg folders, list the directories you don't want scanned. If startup is still slow try deleting (renaming) the files in C:\Users\Your Name\AppData\Local\Corel PaintShop Pro\17.0\Database.

[normandy36]

Ok I know its been a while,, I have about a million folders. telling it which ones not to catalog would be insane, there should be a way to turn that off completely. I did not see anything like that in the options.
of coures it takes an hour to start so I avoid it.

[Cassel]

You can set the program to open in EDIT mode (if that is what you prefer), with Files > Preference > General Program Preference > Default Launch Workspace and tick the Edit option.