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From: hoek@smaug.cs.hope.edu (Steve &)
Subject: Re: Windows comes up to SLOW
Message-ID: <1991May14.225628.4574@cs.hope.edu>
Sender: hoek@cs.hope.edu (Steve Hoek)
Organization: Hope College Dept of CS
References: <colfelt.674252168@tramp.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 May 91 22:56:28 GMT

From article <colfelt.674252168@tramp.Colorado.EDU>, by colfelt@news.colorado.edu (COLFELT ANDREW BRINTON W):
> disbrow@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Jim Disbrow) writes:
>>I'm pretty new to windows and have been watching this group only for
>>a short time.  
>>I have a 386-16 w/4meg running DOS 4.0 with win3.0.
>>My problem is that it takes 1 minutes and 4 seconds to boot windows after I 
>>first see the windows logo page.
>>I got rid of all TSRs. No help.
>>Using no wallpaper.    No help.
>>Added swap line in config.sys. No help.
>>Adding wallpaper does NOT increase the time.
>>What gives? I've seen friend's systems come up in just a few seconds. 
>>The only difference that I could see is they have a 20 MHz processor instead
>>of a 16.
>>Any help will be appreciated.
>>I looked in the FAQ but couldn't find an answer.

Are you running ATM on your system?  I know with me, if I run 100+ fonts with
Win3 & ATM 1.1 and a 512k cache I have to wait about 2 minutes to get past the logo screen!
 
Steve Hoek
hoek@cs.hope.edu

