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From: rsvp@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (R. Scott V. Paterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Removing startup icons?
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Date: 18 Nov 88 18:16:42 GMT
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In article <177@bridge2.3Com.Com> ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger) writes:
>If you really want to remove the icons from startup, you could probably
>whack them with ResEdit, but why? They let you know whats loading. And
>can possibly tell you where something goes wrong if you have boot problems.
>I think all Init's should have startup icons...if you disable them, you
>could spend alot longer figuring out a problem related to inits without 
>them....

I wouldn't mind having all the inits having startup icons if I could
see them all, but the startup icons run off the end of the screen and
you can not see what is loading anymore.

-rsvp