Kevin,
If you want to see dotNET take 30 secs to start, do it on an average Windows 18-month-old corporate PC with Outlook, IE, a bespoke app and Word open, and with Zone Alarm, Messenger and Norton Antivirus active.
Regards
j.R
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
