>Hi
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>I takes too long, about 1 minute, until the command windows appears.
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>It's a new laptop Sony Vaio with Windows 7.
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>I remember that in Windows 98 it started almost immediatelly,
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>What can it be ?
>
>Moises

Check for nonexistent folders in your path setting. If you have a command which runs on startup, I suggest that you check which line takes too long to finish.