Recently after a couple of updates Kontakt 7 and Battery 4 for me can take over a minute if not more to start up, both plugin and standalone. I have used Kontakt and Battery for many years and they have always loaded instantly.
Steps I have taken to resolve issue, uninstalled, removed related folders and registry keys, checked SSD's for disk errors but problem still persists after new install.
System Info: Windows 11 / 12900k / 4090 / 64G DDR5
Thank you for any insight / help on this matter, I wanted to send it as a bug report to NI but there is no option under support which is a little strange.
Cheers
Ryan