Rather than the Payroll Summary Report having the Hours & Rate automatically ticked, can it be the other way around and the standard report be unticked. If you want hours & rates you can modify and tick them to add them to the report. Most people I know that use this report always untick. So frustrating.
We'll monitor and see how many requests we get for this change.
In the meantime, there are a couple of workarounds you could use if this report takes a long time to generate (and then a long time to refresh once you've unticked those options): -
You can untick the Hours and Rate options and then Memorise the report, you can then use the Memorised copy of the report and the options wont be selected when it loads.
or
Under Edit > Preferences > Reports & Graphs > My Preferences, you can select the option to 'Prompt me to modify the report options before opening a report', you will then be able to untick those options prior to the report loading.