I am still running the trial...couple of days left. But it does start up MUCH slower on my computer too.
The "solution" did fix the metering problem. I find that if I am playing a windows media player...or something like that, if I start 2.0 while I am listening to music, it whacks out my input/output settings really weird. Ususally my default output setting is not available, and the input changes to a default way on down the list. I have to stop the running program, and then go to the hardware setup again. ...yeah..I know I shouldn't listen to music probably and expect the program to start up ok..
..just an old habit I suppose I had.