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From: daneman@czech.sw.mcc.com (Michael Daneman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows comes up to SLOW
Keywords: Windows speed
Message-ID: <5185@czech.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 15 May 91 17:26:06 GMT
Organization: MCC Software Technology Program
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References: <923@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>

In article <923@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> disbrow@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Jim Disbrow) writes:
> 
> I'm pretty new to windows and have been watching this group only for
> a short time.  
> 
> I have a 386-16 w/4meg running DOS 4.0 with win3.0.
> My problem is that it takes 1 minutes and 4 seconds to boot windows after I 
> first see the windows logo page.

I found that the BIGGEST factor in the time windows takes to load is the
speed of your hard drive.  I used to have a Seagate-225 (65ms) on a 25MHz
386 and windows took 1-1.25min to load.  Then I upgraded to a 20ms hard drive
and now it only takes about 20sec.  Since you didn't specify what kind of
hard drive you have I can't say for sure that that is your problem.  But
there's a pretty good chance that it is.


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