Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!eos!labrea!Portia!mouser
From: mouser@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Michael Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Removing startup icons?
Message-ID: <4172@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 20 Nov 88 10:54:16 GMT
References: <177@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Reply-To: mouser@portia.stanford.edu (Michael Wang)
Organization: Stanford University
Lines: 18

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.
> [ stuff deleted ]

Startup icons interfer with startup screen desktop patterns. They become
part of the startup screen desktop pattern - very annoying.

-Michael Wang

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