Please answer several additional questions:
1) Do you use a full package?
2) Which OS do you have?
3) What are your system characteristics (RAM, processor, etc.)?
4) Does it take 10 minutes each time or did it took so much time only on the first UGENE run?
Quote:I recall with previous versions you could see the tasks loading and cancel if one was taking too long
Note that it is not recommended to cancel tasks on the start up. The initialization tasks are important for the package to work stable. This is one of the reason why the splash screen was added.
Quote:Are there any log files I can look at to see what is hanging?
The log becomes available when UGENE is loaded. See
documentation for details.
You may send us the log, so we could investigate which task was executed so long. Please make sure to enable the details log level in the Application Settings. You might also set the "Date format" to "hh:mm:ss" for more information.
Also, additionally, I've created
UGENE-3418 issue to be able to track the loading status.