Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!emory!gatech!prism!romeo!rhoward From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Skipping Windows Banner Screen Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 91 14:27:17 GMT References: <2075@raybed2.msd.ray.com> <141704@tiger.oxy.edu> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute Lines: 30 In <141704@tiger.oxy.edu> traiger@oxy.edu (Saul Traiger) writes: [for no banner screen...] >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? My simple experiment (a watch w/ a sweep second hand) showed their was no difference in start up time. It seems that the only thing the opening screen is there for is to keep me from having to stare at a blank screen for 10-20 seconds while waiting for things to get going. The follow-up to this is, of course, are there any tools to help me create my *own* opening screen file that I can merge into win.com? I guess ideally something that would convert Paint or GIF files would be in order.... Robert -- | Robert L. Howard | Georgia Tech Research Institute | | rhoward@msd.gatech.edu | MATD Laboratory | | (404) 528-7165 | Atlanta, Georgia 30332 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Reality is showing us that perhaps we should do with nuclear | | power the same thing Keloggs is advocating for Corn Flakes - | | Discover it again for the first time." -- John De Armond |