Portmaster Service Not Starting Immediately After Boot

[akano12]

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What happened:

Whenever i want to whitelist a domain for an application on Windows, i have to whitelist it too for System DNS Client, otherwise the connection would still be blocked.

I did some research and read that disabling HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache should sort this out and use portmaster as DNS resolver.

I disabled it and everything woks fine, except that now after booting to windows, portmaster would take ~50-70 seconds to start, when booting i can see the tray icon being red and portmaster disabled, doesn't matter how many times i try to enable it just won't. it would start by itself after the mentioned amount of seconds.

What did you expect to happen?:

Use portmaster as DNS resolver and work properly on boot

How did you reproduce it?:

Disable HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache

Also not sure if this is the optimal way to address the thing i wanted to achieve

Debug Information:

Regarding the logs, not sure which ones to post, let me know and i'll share

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