4.7 takes several minutes to launch on windows unless run as admin

Editing this because I have more clarity into the actual issue

Seems that when launching, godot editor tries to stat all drives, twice. This check https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-getvolumeinformationw seems to hang for about 8 seconds before giving up (per drive, x2 per launch)
In my case I believe this was because I had a VPN that enabled connectivity of those network drives, but it was only letting godot use the VPN when I ran as administrator, or possibly true access to the network drive was being restricted in another way that admin bypassed.

Tested versions

reproducible in 4.7 4.7-beta1 4.7-dev5 4.7-dev4
not reproducible in 4.7-dev3 4.7-dev1 4.6.3, 4.6.2, 4.6.1, 4.4

System information

Godot v4.7.stable - Windows 11 (build 26200) - Multi-window, 2 monitors - Direct3D 12 (Forward+) - dedicated Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (Intel Corporation; 32.0.101.7084) - 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1370P (20 threads) - 31.66 GiB memory - WASAPI (48000 Hz, Stereo/mono)

I also tried compatibility rendering and that did not change the behavior

Issue description

when running the editor, it opens and then after about 1 seconds, which normally is when it is done loading and shows the project list, instead shows the "not responding" white bar at the top
about 20 seconds later, it will finally load, but it will have an error about fetching the update in red. Error 13.

When opening any project, including creating a blank one. it will hang for 2-5 minutes before showing something other than the splash screen, and then it works fine.

running as administrator does not exhibit any of these problems.

I am worried this has to do with AV or other IT restrictions, but there is a clear difference in behavior between builds

Steps to reproduce

run Godot_v4.7-_win64.exe on a windows 11 system that is behaving like mine is.

If anyone has a suggestion of additional information I could collect or things to try, please let me know.

Minimal reproduction project (MRP)

This is project agnostic

Bisecting now
It does take a very long time for me to compile unfortunately
to start
good 60fff00
bad 755fa44

trying to build bbf8e26 fails because
In file included from platform/windows/tts_windows.cpp:36:
platform/windows/tts_driver_onecore.h:43:10: fatal error: winrt/Windows.Foundation.Collections.h: No such file or directory
43 | #include <winrt/Windows.Foundation.Collections.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

are all commits supposed to be buildable? what do I do about this?

Looks like 'git bisect skip' is what I do about that

git bisect start
# status: waiting for both good and bad commits
# good: [60fff00a660a2aeb03f88c07fb7baed353bcb72f] Merge pull request #117820 from akien-mga/ios-include-thread_safe
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# status: waiting for bad commit, 1 good commit known
# bad: [755fa449c4aa94fdf2c58e2b726fd62efde07e09] Merge pull request #118318 from clayjohn/compatibility-sky-shader-error
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# good: [1f70e1cebb53d24388933b9b9d905c4906ee9862] Right-click on scene tab without selecting it
git bisect good 1f70e1cebb53d24388933b9b9d905c4906ee9862
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Having the exact same issue as you and I might have found what's causing it, at least on my laptop.

In my case, I have an NTFS drive that I can only use on a VPN or local network (by design). Right clicking on it when disconnected from the VPN would crash file explorer, so the real source of the bug could be with Windows. Removing the drive or connecting to the VPN means Godot starts up as normal.

I also have a webDAV mounted, but this isn't causing any problems even when I switch it off on the server's end.

in dir_access_windows.cpp there is this function

void DirAccessWindows::_update_drives() {
	drives.clear();
	DWORD mask = GetLogicalDrives();
	for (int i = 0; i < MAX_DRIVES; i++) {
		if (mask & (1 << i)) {
			String drive = String::chr('A' + i) + ':';
			String path = drive + '\\';
			String label;
			char16_t wlabel[4096];
			if (GetVolumeInformationW((LPCWSTR)(path).utf16().get_data(), (LPWSTR)wlabel, 4096, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, 0)) {
				label = String::utf16(wlabel);
			}
			drives.push_back(DriveInfo{ drive, label });
		}
	}
}

adding this in order to not run GetVolumeInformation 'fixes' the problem, obviously gutting the intended improvement here

void DirAccessWindows::_update_drives() {
	drives.clear();
	DWORD mask = GetLogicalDrives();
	for (int i = 0; i < MAX_DRIVES; i++) {
		if (mask & (1 << i)) {
			String drive = String::chr('A' + i) + ':';
			String path = drive + '\\';
			String label;
			drives.push_back(DriveInfo{ drive, "H" });
			continue;
			char16_t wlabel[4096];
			if (GetVolumeInformationW((LPCWSTR)(path).utf16().get_data(), (LPWSTR)wlabel, 4096, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, 0)) {
				label = String::utf16(wlabel);
			}
			drives.push_back(DriveInfo{ drive, label });
		}
	}
}

it looks like it goes through this function twice when being launched for some reason, and disconnected network drives take about 8 seconds each before GetVolumeInformationW returns in error

this seems a reasonable option and is what I will be using for the near future

void DirAccessWindows::_update_drives() {
	drives.clear();
	DWORD mask = GetLogicalDrives();
	for (int i = 0; i < MAX_DRIVES; i++) {
		if (mask & (1 << i)) {
			String drive = String::chr('A' + i) + ':';
			String path = drive + '\\';
			String label;
			UINT type = GetDriveTypeW((LPCWSTR)(path).utf16().get_data());
			if (type == DRIVE_REMOTE) {
				drives.push_back(DriveInfo{ drive, "[network]" });
				continue;
			}
			char16_t wlabel[4096];
			if (GetVolumeInformationW((LPCWSTR)(path).utf16().get_data(), (LPWSTR)wlabel, 4096, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, 0)) {
				label = String::utf16(wlabel);
			}
			drives.push_back(DriveInfo{ drive, label });
		}
	}
}

in case anyone else wants to be running 4.7, trusts me, is running into the issue, and doesn't want to build, there is a build under releases with just the above change on my fork

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