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From: traiger@oxy.edu (Saul Traiger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Skipping Windows Banner Screen
Message-ID: <141704@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 91 00:40:08 GMT
References: <2075@raybed2.msd.ray.com>
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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In article <2075@raybed2.msd.ray.com> mwm@raybed2.msd.ray.com (mwm) writes:
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>   I remember reading in one of the trade rags, a tip about setting up Windows
>so that when you loaded it, it would skip the banner screen and (maybe?)
>start the applications you set up to run on start-up.	Help me out.  Was
>I imagining this?  BTW, I know how to use the WIN.INI "load=" and "run=" lines
>but using them doesn't disable the banner screen from showing up.

Simply load windows by typing:

win :

That's all there is to it. Now my question - does skipping the banner save
time in loading windows? Any theory or data on this?

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