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From: eckert@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows comes up to SLOW
Message-ID: <1991May17.172837.110@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com>
Date: 17 May 91 23:28:37 GMT
References: <5185@czech.sw.mcc.com>
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In article <5185@czech.sw.mcc.com>, daneman@czech.sw.mcc.com (Michael Daneman) writes:
> 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 agree with the person stating that having the mouse on com2 causes a
delay.  I couldn't belive that this makes a difference, but I tried it and
it totally eliminated the time the cpu spent doing something without
accessing the disk.  Anyone know why Windows sleeps for a while on startup
when the mouse is on com2?
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