Greetings all--
-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Abbe <[log in to unmask]>
>
>My father in law's new system came with win98 installed.  What
we've
>noticed is it takes quite a bit longer to boot up than the
others running
>Win 95.  I went in and trimmed down the time a bit by removing a
few
>things from start up  and not having Norton scan everything but
it still
>takes 2 minutes and 15 seconds.

It may not make an extreme difference, but check to see how many
fonts are installed in the c:\windows\fonts folder. The more
fonts there are, the slower Windows (95 or 98) loads, since the
OS has to initialize, bless, recognize, whatever ... each one of
them in order to make them available for either the shell or any
applications. You mentioned Corel Legal Edition (WP?). This app
may include quite a lot of fonts.

Just my $.02 and I hope this helps.

Regards,

Paul A. Shippert               Library/Media Specialist
"   . . . and I'm hovering like a fly
   waiting for the windshield on the freeway."  Genesis
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