[Gimp-user] slow startup from too many plug-ins installed

[Dan Kronstadt <subs kronhead com>]

Hello, all. I'm new to Gimp - running on Windows. I think I took the 
defaults on installation. My problem is slow startup - and I think the 
problem is the 170 modules I have in the plug-ins directory. I moved 
them all somewhere else, and Gimp started up really fast - but I could 
not, for example, even open a jpg image. I think the only option was a 
native Gimp file.

So - any suggestions on getting a more reasonable number of plug-ins? 
What's a good startup set? Or - is 170 normal, and I have some other 
problem that is making startup of these modules so slow?

Thanks.
Dan