I also notice it takes >20-25 seconds to start up (in prior version used to start very quickly)

logfile pasted below and attached.   Thanks.

2016-04-25T09:35:22
Windows 7
Compiled using MSVC++ 12.0 (Visual Studio 2013)
Qt runtime version: 5.5.1
Qt compilation version: 5.5.1
Addressing mode: 64-bit
Total physical memory: 4094 MB
Available physical memory: 1529 MB
Physical memory in use: 62%
Processor speed: 3215 MHz
Processor name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+
Processor speed: 3215 MHz
Processor name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+
C:\Program Files\Stellarium\stellarium.exe 
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[ This is Stellarium 0.14.3 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Fabien Chereau et al.         ]
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Writing log file to: "C:\\Users\\Rainer\\AppData\\Roaming\\Stellarium\\log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 .  "C:\\Users\\Rainer\\AppData\\Roaming\\Stellarium"
  1 .  "."
Config file is:  "C:\\Users\\Rainer\\AppData\\Roaming\\Stellarium\\config.ini"
Detected: OpenGL "4.5"
Driver version string: "4.5.0 NVIDIA 364.72"
GL vendor is "NVIDIA Corporation"
GL renderer is "GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2"
GL Shading Language version is "4.50 NVIDIA"
GLSL Version Number detected:  4.5
GLSL version is fine, we should not see a graphics problem.
Cache directory is:  "C:\\Users\\Rainer\\AppData\\Local\\stellarium\\stellarium\\cache"
Sky language is  "en_US"
Application language is  "en_US"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loading star data ...
"Loading \".\\stars\\default\\stars_0_0v0_5.cat\": 0_0v0_2; 4963"
"Loading \".\\stars\\default\\stars_1_0v0_5.cat\": 1_0v0_2; 21598"
"Loading \".\\stars\\default\\stars_2_0v0_5.cat\": 2_0v0_2; 150090"
"Loading \".\\stars\\default\\stars_3_1v0_3.cat\": 3_1v0_3; 428466"
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level:  3
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::stateChanged(QNetworkSession::State) to QNetworkReplyHttpImpl::_q_networkSessionStateChanged(QNetworkSession::State)
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: "2451514.25001"
Reloading DSO data...
Loaded 10756 DSO records
Loading DSO name data ...
Loaded 221 / 297 DSO name records successfully
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Loading star names from ".\\skycultures\\western\\star_names.fab"
Loaded 339 / 339 common star names
Loading star names from ".\\stars\\default\\name.fab"
Loaded 4506 / 4506 scientific star names
Loading variable stars from ".\\stars\\default\\gcvs_hip_part.dat"
Loaded 6916 / 6916 variable stars
Loading cross-index data from ".\\stars\\default\\cross-index.dat"
Loaded 108279 / 108279 cross-index data records
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ... 
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Initializing basic GL shaders... 
Creating GUI ...
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Loaded plugin "Exoplanets"
Exoplanets: version of the format of the catalog: 1
Exoplanets: loading catalog file: "C:\\Users\\Rainer\\AppData\\Roaming\\Stellarium\\modules\\Exoplanets\\exoplanets.json"
Loaded plugin "FOV"
Loaded plugin "MeteorShowers"
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
MeteorShowersMgr: Loading catalog file: "C:\\Users\\Rainer\\AppData\\Roaming\\Stellarium\\modules\\MeteorShowers\\showers.json"
Loaded plugin "Novae"
Novae: version of the catalog: 1
Novae: loading catalog file: "C:\\Users\\Rainer\\AppData\\Roaming\\Stellarium\\modules\\Novae\\novae.json"
Loaded plugin "Oculars"
Ocular plugin - press Command-O to toggle eyepiece view mode. Press ALT-o for configuration.
Oculars::validateIniFile ocular.ini exists at:  "C:\\Users\\Rainer\\AppData\\Roaming\\Stellarium\\modules\\Oculars\\ocular.ini" . Checking version...
Oculars::validateIniFile found existing ini file version  3
Loaded plugin "Satellites"
Satellites: loading catalog file: "C:\\Users\\Rainer\\AppData\\Roaming\\Stellarium\\modules\\Satellites\\satellites.json"
Loaded plugin "SolarSystemEditor"
Using the ssystem.ini file that already exists in the user directory...
Unable to find module called "TimeZoneConfiguration"
Loaded plugin "TimeZoneConfiguration"
Failure getting IP-based location: 
	 "Connection refused"
Unloaded plugin "TimeZoneConfiguration"
Unloaded plugin "SolarSystemEditor"
Unloaded plugin "Satellites"
Unloaded plugin "Oculars"
Unloaded plugin "Novae"
Unloaded plugin "MeteorShowers"
Unloaded plugin "FOV"
Unloaded plugin "Exoplanets"
Downloaded 1 files (0 kbytes) in a session of 24.217 sec (average of 0 kB/s + 0 files from cache (0 kB)).