Speed tip 1Beginning with Logos 7.10, launch faster on Windows desktop by compiling each change in Logos.EXE using ngen.exe. (Logos 8 does this automatically after each upgrade or release.)

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Windows desktop Right-click the Logos icon on the task bar. Show task choices just above the task bar

Right-click Logos Bible Software. To see choices for the executable.

In the second popup, click Properties. To see the icon’s properties.

Highlight the data in the Target field.

Press Ctrl+C Copy to clipboard

Open a DOS command window

Press Ctrl+V Paste the command string that launches Logos into the command window.

At the right-hand of the command that ends with “Logos.exe,” type “ /ngen”

Notice the space that separates “/ngen” from the original command.

Press [Enter]

Launch Logos. NGEN will recompile the EXE.

Notice how long it takes to launch. Then close and relaunch. It took 1/3 less time.

Notice: This process must be repeated each time Logos.exe is updated. (Until Faithlife figures how to automate this process.)

Speed tip 2If you just keep on opening more and more resources, Logos will run slower and slower as it tries to keep everything in sync. Large files on notes will also slow you down when you export them to Microsoft Word. Here’s the hot setup:

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Bible desktop, with at least one Bible showing.

1. Set up a separate notes file for each book of the Bible.

If you only have a couple of notes files, you can exceed 20,000 pages of Word.DOCX when you export or print, which gets awkward.

At the main menu, choose File Notes

Open a new Notes file in the left-most pane.

Untitled Notes tab Click the pencil icon next to Untitled Notes, then type the new name.

Edit the name of the notes file (ie: Genesis Notes)

Genesis Notes tab Right-click the tab of the notes file and select Close This Tab

Repeat for each book or section (ie: 123John Notes)

2. Open the Bibles you want.

You will want at least one word-by-word translation (ie: NASB) and idea-by-idea translation (ie: NIV).

English/Spanish Bibles go in the top-right pane of the desktop. Original-language Bibles go just below.

LXX/MT interlinear is handy for cross-referencing Greek to Hebrew words, but you can’t look up lemmas from it. Also open a plain Greek and Hebrew for lemma searches.

3. Set up layouts for each book of the Bible.

Genesis On the main menu, click File Open Genesis Notes

Genesis On the main menu, click Library.

In the Find field, type Genesis. If the Find field has any data, it filters your search

Click the triangle next to Bible Commentary.

All your Genesis commentaries will show on the list below it.

Double-click the next commentary you want for this Bible book.

If the commentary does not open in the correct pane, drag the commentary’s tab to the pane you want; I like the bottom-center one.

Repeat for each commentary. All Bibles, Notes, and Commentaries are open

4. Turn off all notes except for the preferred Bible.

By default, each Bible and each commentary tracks all the notes files. As you scroll any Bible, all the open commentaries and notes files are

interrogated to see if they need to scroll too. Slo-o-ow.

Preferred Bible Open Visual Filters Icon with three intersecting rings.

Check Resources, and Links to open panels. (Sympathetic highlighting has known bugs as of 2015, but it’s handy.)

Turn off Faithlife comments.

Make sure every Notes file is checked

Only this Bible will show the colored icons that mark annotated text.

In Logos 6, these can all be turned off with a single click.

Logos will not have to scroll the Notes files. Fa-a-ast.

All other Bibles and Commentaries

Open Visual Filters

Make sure every Notes file is NOT checked.

5. Name the Layout to match the Notes file

See also https://blog.logos.com/2014/11/customize-your-desktop-to-fit-your-workflow/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LogosBibleSoftwareBlog+%28Logos+Bible+Software+Blog%29

Click Layouts

Click the pencil icon just to the right of the top Snapshot.

To edit the name of the layout. (ie: Genesis, TimTitPhm)

Type the name of the book, then press [Enter] to save it.

The next time you click Layouts, you will see this name. To restore that layout, click to the right of its text. (Clicking on the layout’s name would try to edit it.)

Repeat for the next book. These steps will speed response time in the long run.

Speed tip 3Sometimes Logos’s Web Cache gets bloated. Here’s how to delete it.

What You See What You Do What It MeansWindows desktop Open Windows Explorer Not Internet Explorer

Windows ExplorerDrill down the tree to C:\Users\JackH\AppData\Local\Logos\Data\[randomname]WebCache\

Your user login will vary.

The AppData folder might be hidden.

Delete the WebCache folder Logos will create a new one.

If the WebCache gets huge (gigabytes) it will slow everything as it tries to keep all in sync. Normal size is 10-20 KB.