Hi,
as we work on different computer we save our preferences not in C:\Users.
We store them in H:\ (Homedrive). We accomplish that by passing this to SquirreL on start:
-Duser.home=H:\Preferences
I found by Java Monitoring that the XML-Writer itself is the problem (I will add the exact function when I am in work again) and stores data "bytewise" (maybe 20 KB per second).
It takes about five to ten minutes to store my prefs, while the same thing tooks way less then a minute on lokal harddrives.
I already tried to change (xmlwriter) lib that I found to newest version, but I didn't get any better result.
SQuirreL 3.9.1-stable: nanoxml.jar
Latest Version: nanoxml.jar v2.2.1
I should add: Since this week - we can use a better Internet Connection (our Profile is not in our company site located). Since then it is way better.