Arduino UNO upload delay

Using Arduino IDE 1.x
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Hi,

I've been playing around with arduino Uno board. the only thing that's getting me down is upload times.
when upload button is clicked, the software waits for around 30-40 seconds (during which time nothing happens) and then uploads the sketch in couple of seconds (as shown inside IDE itself and flashing rx/tx leds on arduino board).

Is it possible to decrease(or remove) this initial delay as it's slowing the development down a great deal.

UPD: forgot to add that i'm running Windows7 and using 0022 version of Arduino IDE. there are only 2 com ports listed in tools menu.

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Found a possible solution here:

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1285838328

points to Comodo firewall as the culprit for slow complication times.

preliminary results are positive, will do some proper testing later tonight.

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done some tests. while COMODO firewall does seem to have an effect, it's rather negligeble on my system.

Still looking for solution.

How long does compiling+uploading for everyone else? (i'm using a 46 line sketch)