1) Everything is local
2) Tool windows: Build, Defs, File Tabs, Output Projects, References, Search Results Symbols
3) Yes, 6 projects; 42, 70, 130, 91, 26, and 73 files.
4) "There are no active background processes."
When I close and open Slickedit, again with the ~ 5 second wait. I have on the order of 200 files that show up with list-buffers. Process explorer is showing a pretty steady 50% load all the time, as well as around 105K Private Bytes and 180K Virtual Size.
I tried closing and reopening each tool window in turn, but load didn't change.
Not sure if this makes a difference, but I tend to not store my workspace/project files in the same directory as my code:
/project/
/project/slickeditWorkspace/
/project/slickeditWorkspace/*.vpj
/project/slickeditWorkspace/*.vpw
/project/repo
/project/repo/<code here>