Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!hydra!cc.helsinki.fi!tmottonen From: tmottonen@cc.helsinki.fi Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Skipping Windows Banner Screen Message-ID: <1991Feb6.135554.4788@cc.helsinki.fi> Date: 6 Feb 91 13:55:54 GMT References: <2075@raybed2.msd.ray.com> <141704@tiger.oxy.edu> Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 42 In article , rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes: > 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 | You can convert GIF files to BMP and RLE files with WinGif, a shareware conversion utility. So you could make your own screen files with PaintBrush and convert them to RLE format. Teemu -- _________ Teemu Mottonen | | internet: tmottonen@cc.helsinki.Fi University of Helsinki | | bitnet: TMOTTONEN@FINUH Dept.of Computer Science |_________| decnet: HYLK::TMOTTONEN