diff --git a/apps/remix-ide/src/app.js b/apps/remix-ide/src/app.js
index 087c074020..490c646bdf 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide/src/app.js
+++ b/apps/remix-ide/src/app.js
@@ -424,6 +424,9 @@ class AppComponent {
     } catch (e) {
       console.log("couldn't register iframe plugins", e.message)
     }
+    if(isElectron()){
+      await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['fs'])
+    }
     await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['layout'])
     await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['notification'])
     await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['editor'])
@@ -460,7 +463,7 @@ class AppComponent {
     await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['solidity-script', 'remix-templates'])
 
     if(isElectron()){
-      await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['fs', 'isogit', 'electronconfig', 'electronTemplates', 'xterm', 'ripgrep'])
+      await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['isogit', 'electronconfig', 'electronTemplates', 'xterm', 'ripgrep'])
     }
 
     this.appManager.on(
diff --git a/apps/remix-ide/src/app/components/preload.tsx b/apps/remix-ide/src/app/components/preload.tsx
index ec9be4597a..b521068f7f 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide/src/app/components/preload.tsx
+++ b/apps/remix-ide/src/app/components/preload.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {indexedDBFileSystem} from '../files/filesystems/indexedDB'
 import {localStorageFS} from '../files/filesystems/localStorage'
 import {fileSystemUtility, migrationTestData} from '../files/filesystems/fileSystemUtility'
 import './styles/preload.css'
+import isElectron from 'is-electron'
 const _paq = (window._paq = window._paq || [])
 
 export const Preload = () => {
@@ -28,10 +29,14 @@ export const Preload = () => {
   )
 
   function loadAppComponent() {
+    console.log('app import', new Date().toLocaleString())
     import('../../app')
       .then((AppComponent) => {
+        console.log('app loaded', new Date().toLocaleString())
         const appComponent = new AppComponent.default()
+        console.log('app run', new Date().toLocaleString())
         appComponent.run().then(() => {
+          console.log('Remix loaded', new Date().toLocaleString())
           render(
             <>
               <RemixApp app={appComponent} />
@@ -68,7 +73,6 @@ export const Preload = () => {
       testBlockStorage.current ? null : localStorageFileSystem.current
     ])
     if (fsLoaded) {
-      console.log(fsLoaded.name + ' activated')
       _paq.push(['trackEvent', 'Storage', 'activate', fsLoaded.name])
       loadAppComponent()
     } else {
@@ -85,6 +89,10 @@ export const Preload = () => {
   }
 
   useEffect(() => {
+    if(isElectron()){
+      loadAppComponent()
+      return
+    }
     async function loadStorage() {
       ;(await remixFileSystems.current.addFileSystem(remixIndexedDB.current)) || _paq.push(['trackEvent', 'Storage', 'error', 'indexedDB not supported'])
       ;(await remixFileSystems.current.addFileSystem(localStorageFileSystem.current)) || _paq.push(['trackEvent', 'Storage', 'error', 'localstorage not supported'])
diff --git a/apps/remix-ide/src/app/files/electronProvider.ts b/apps/remix-ide/src/app/files/electronProvider.ts
index 3543f756a4..cb24867999 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide/src/app/files/electronProvider.ts
+++ b/apps/remix-ide/src/app/files/electronProvider.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ export class ElectronProvider extends FileProvider {
   // isDirectory is already included
   // this is a more efficient version of the default implementation
   async resolveDirectory(path, cb) {
+    console.log('resolveDirectory', path)
+    console.log('start', new Date(new Date().getTime()).toLocaleTimeString())
     path = this.removePrefix(path)
     if (path.indexOf('/') !== 0) path = '/' + path
     try {
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ export class ElectronProvider extends FileProvider {
         }
       }
       //console.log(ret, 'ret resolveDirectory ELECTRON')
+      console.log('end', new Date(new Date().getTime()).toLocaleTimeString())
       if (cb) cb(null, ret)
       return ret
     } catch (error) {
diff --git a/apps/remixdesktop/src/plugins/ripgrepPlugin.ts b/apps/remixdesktop/src/plugins/ripgrepPlugin.ts
index b9b9f415d0..4f479f2dfc 100644
--- a/apps/remixdesktop/src/plugins/ripgrepPlugin.ts
+++ b/apps/remixdesktop/src/plugins/ripgrepPlugin.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ const convertPathToPosix = (pathName: string): string => {
 export class RipgrepPlugin extends ElectronBasePlugin {
   clients: RipgrepPluginClient[] = []
   constructor() {
-    console.log('constructor ripgrepPlugin')
     super(profile, clientProfile, RipgrepPluginClient)
     this.methods = [...super.methods]
   }
@@ -37,10 +36,8 @@ export class RipgrepPluginClient extends ElectronBasePluginClient {
   workingDir: string = ''
   constructor(webContentsId: number, profile: Profile) {
     super(webContentsId, profile)
-    console.log('constructor ripgrepPluginClient')
     
     this.onload(() => {
-      console.log('onload ripgrepPluginClient')
       this.on('fs' as any, 'workingDirChanged', async (path: string) => {
         this.workingDir = path
       })
@@ -52,7 +49,6 @@ export class RipgrepPluginClient extends ElectronBasePluginClient {
     path = convertPathToPosix(this.fixPath(path))
 
     return new Promise((c, e) => {
-      console.log('PATH rg', path)
 
       const rg = spawn(rgPath, ['.', '-l', path])
 
@@ -60,7 +56,6 @@ export class RipgrepPluginClient extends ElectronBasePluginClient {
 
       const stream = byline(rg.stdout.setEncoding('utf8'))
       stream.on('data', (rgresult: string) => {
-        console.log(this.workingDir)
         let pathWithoutWorkingDir = rgresult.replace(this.workingDir, '')
         if (pathWithoutWorkingDir.endsWith('/')) {
           pathWithoutWorkingDir = pathWithoutWorkingDir.slice(0, -1)
@@ -77,7 +72,6 @@ export class RipgrepPluginClient extends ElectronBasePluginClient {
         })
       })
       stream.on('end', () => {
-        console.log('rg', resultrg)
         c(resultrg)
       })
     })
diff --git a/apps/remixdesktop/src/preload.ts b/apps/remixdesktop/src/preload.ts
index bffaad1400..f7eb174569 100644
--- a/apps/remixdesktop/src/preload.ts
+++ b/apps/remixdesktop/src/preload.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import { Message } from '@remixproject/plugin-utils'
 import { contextBridge, ipcRenderer } from 'electron'
 
-console.log('preload.ts')
+console.log('preload.ts', new Date().toLocaleTimeString())
 
 /* preload script needs statically defined API for each plugin */
 
diff --git a/libs/remix-ui/app/src/lib/remix-app/remix-app.tsx b/libs/remix-ui/app/src/lib/remix-app/remix-app.tsx
index 2ad2e8e96e..578ab4a100 100644
--- a/libs/remix-ui/app/src/lib/remix-app/remix-app.tsx
+++ b/libs/remix-ui/app/src/lib/remix-app/remix-app.tsx
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ const RemixApp = (props: IRemixAppUi) => {
       setLocale(props.app.localeModule.currentLocale())
     }
     if (props.app) {
+      console.log('app activate', new Date().toLocaleString())
       activateApp()
     }
   }, [])