Probably you have a antivirus program running, also Norton tends to cause a
slow start-up. Also any 16bit drivers running take some to to start-up and
inialize.
Hope this helps.



macavity wrote:

> I am running a Dell XPS200 with WIN95 and Norton Desktop.  During
> start-up, the computer shows the normal sequence of checking memory and
> drives, etc, then the windows screen.  Then it goes back to the dos-type
> screen and does nothing for just over 1 minute.  No hard drive activity
> or anything else that I can detect.  After that, it goes to the windows
> screen and continues to load.
>
> Anyone have any idea why the computer would do nothing for this period
> of time?  It takes close to 5 minutes for my 200mHz Pentium to go from
> pushing the "on" button to actually being able to do something.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin Weaver
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