Audacity is searching plug-in in my whole HD

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Hi all
I am runnig the Audacity 2.1.1 on Windows 7 Service Pack 1
When it run at first time it spent too much time finding DLLs. At the end, It showed a message box to enable/disable a strange and enormous list of plugins.
To provide consistent data to analysis I tried to use menu: Help, Generate support data… but the zip ended with 2145 KB, been the upper than the limit of 2 MB to an attached file. As the pluginregistry.cfg file has 32184 KB I had to remove this file from the zip. (attached Audacity - without pluginregistry.zip),
I also ran the manager interface, that spent much time, and then I did a screen capture (attached Capture Plug-in Manager.PNG). It shows DLLs found from sql developer folder, but it reached to find files in the recycle tool as shown below .

[pluginregistry/Stub/base64:TW9kdWxlX19UaGUgQXVkYWNpdHkgVGVhbV9WU1QgRWZmZWN0c19fXFByb2dyYW0gRmlsZXMgKHg4NilcSmF2YVxKUkUgMS42LjBfNDVcYmluXGF3dC5kbGw=]
Path=\Program Files (x86)\Java\JRE 1.6.0_45\bin\awt.dll
Symbol=
Name=
Version=
Vendor=
Description=
ProviderID=Module__The Audacity Team_VST Effects_
Enabled=0
Valid=1



[pluginregistry/Stub/base64:TW9kdWxlX19UaGUgQXVkYWNpdHkgVGVhbV9WU1QgRWZmZWN0c19fXCRSZWN5Y2xlLkJpblxTLTEtNS0yMS0xOTU3OTk0NDg4LTk2Mzg5NDU2MC03MjUzNDU1NDMtMjM5MDE3XCRSRVJQSEdNXGRsaW1pdGVyXERfTGltaXRlci5kbGw=]
Path=\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-21-1957994488-963894560-725345543-239017\$RERPHGM\dlimiter\D_Limiter.dll
Symbol=
Name=
Version=
Vendor=
Description=
ProviderID=Module__The Audacity Team_VST Effects_
Enabled=0
Valid=1

That is all I could notice.

Is there any config I had to do to solve this waste of time during the start up and keep the functionality to find new plugins (inside C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\Plug-Ins or …\Nyquist) when I install a new one?
Thank you for your support.
Capture Plug-in Manager.PNG
Audacity - without pluginregistry.zip (6.04 KB)

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There is no way to tell Audacity to ignore any normal paths it searches for plugins.

Here is a list of locations where Audacity searches for VST effects.

What is the actual fully qualiifed path to that "sw\sqldeveloper" folder you see in the Plug-in Manager, including the drive letter?

Could one of your software installations have added unwanted paths to the “VST_PATH” environment variable, or messed up your environment variables? The only other explanation I can think of is that some DLL somewhere in your PATH is confusing Audacity and making it look everywhere for DLL plugins.

If you open a Command Prompt and type

set > path.txt

that will give you a “path.txt” file you can attach for us to show us all your environment variables.

I don’t know if it’s relevant but you have a non standard location for FFmpeg "C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity.FFmpeg".

What do you see when Audacity takes a long time to launch, other than the splash screen with Audacity logo? I don’t understand why Audacity would show you the Plug-in Manager of its own accord, which you seem to be saying. Can you quit Audacity and restart it, then attach the log from Help > Show Log… ?


Gale