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#180638– #Slow start up at home Message #181214

From: Larry Hall WinNT Forum · Setup & Install March 31, 1994 10:57 PM

Sam, The slow time in booting at home is when the NT logo appears and before the CNTRL/ALT/DEL message appears. I found no sign of the CD within the PATH statement. During this time it is searching the CD. At work it does not do this. Regards There are 2…

#Slow start up at home Message #180518

From: Larry Hall WinNT Forum · Setup & Install March 29, 1994 10:14 PM

At home, running on a Vectra 486/25, NT always wants to read the CD, even if Metallica happens to be on it. This takes quite a while. At work, running on a Vectra 66U I do not see this problem. NT boots right up. Furthermore, it does not seem to…

#Load MSCDEX hi? How? Message #41595

From: Larry Hall CDROM Forum · DOS, Windows, OS/2 March 1, 1993 9:44 PM

>> The /M: switch can also be manuevered around. If have set up expanded memory use the /E switch to load the /M: blocks high