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From: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows comes up to SLOW
Summary: AHA!!
Keywords: Windows speed
Message-ID: <9535@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 17 May 91 17:25:18 GMT
References: <923@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> <1088@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Reply-To: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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I've noticed *much* slower startup on my 386/25 system than on my 386/20
system, and anxiously read this thread.

Amid all the suggestions which were in TFM was one which was new
and seemed completely off the wall:

In article <1088@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> press@venice.sedd.trw.com (Barry Press) writes:
>In article <923@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> disbrow@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Jim Disbrow) writes:
>>My problem is that it takes 1 minutes and 4 seconds to boot windows after I 
>>first see the windows logo page.

>Check if you have a serial mouse, and if so where it is connected.

>If you do, and it's on com2, move it over to com1.

Well, my 25Mhz box had the mouse on COM2 (the other system which is otherwise
identical uses COM1) so I switched it. THAT WAS IT!

Thank you, Barry, for making my day!

-- 
Tom Almy
toma@sail.labs.tek.com
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