Hello, Alan.

Sunday January 15 2012 at 15:59, you wrote to me:

 AZ> I've had the feeling for quite a while that MS set Windows systems up
 AZ> to load the desktop early - before any work can actually get done - in
 AZ> order to give users the impression that bootup was faster than is
 AZ> actually the fact.

Oh yeah, that's long been the case as you suspected.  Even in OS/2 that's
the case; the desktop will load long before the TCP/IP stack does.  I use
an "undocumented" CMD file, TCPEXIT.CMD, that brings up the BBS
and its assorted programs -after- the TCP/IP stack has loaded.

I think with Linux, though, the TCP/IP stack may load before the desktop
but that might just be different with each distribution or something.

Later,
Sean

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