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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How to add startup icon to one that doesn't?
Message-ID: <1990Jul23.000056.16577@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Jul 90 00:00:56 GMT
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In article <2530@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>, jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy
Roussak) writes:
> In article <AadTfUy00WB2I0mZsG@andrew.cmu.edu> cw1z+@andrew.cmu.edu
(Cushing Courtney Whitney) writes:
> >I for one, would much rather find a way to rip out all those damn
icons that march across the screen, and slow the boot process up!
> >
> >anyone have any ideas?
> >
> >Cush
> 
> I have to say that I'm not terribly convinced that the icons
> slow the boot process to any significant degree, but if you
> really want to get rid of them, there's an INIT called NoIcon.
> 
> It should be available from sumex.
> 
Right - if you want to speed things up, trash the INITs. Will adding an extra
INIT to stop the icons being drawn actually speed things up?

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu