Lee,

>> Hmmm, SB does *not* display any blue circle. So the question is, what is
>> running in the background and which of your apps displays this blue
>> circle?
>
> He may be referring to a wait cursor like aero_busy.ani

Aha, okay. So Darko may be refering to a Windows "wait" cursor.
SetupBuilder itself does not have any built-in wait circle nor does it use
any wait circle from a Windows resource.

There is no magic at all in the IDE start procedure. The SB10.EXE
application loads the SB10.LIC file (which holds the license information,
currect project list and configuration settings). It does not do anything
else.

Wait... if "Check for Updates" is enabled, then it launches the WUCHECK.EXE
and/or WUPDATE.EXE clients to see if an update is available. Perhaps an
external process blocks one of these applications?

Darko, please whitelist the web update clients. Or in your main
SetupBuilder folder, rename the files WUCHECK.EXE to WUCHECK_.EXE and
WUPDATE.EXE to WUPDATE_.EXE (just to test if this makes a difference).

Friedrich