>Frank ---
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>If the application is in constant use, another way to improve the speed perception is to launch the application at Windows StartUp and have it minimize itself. That way the 5 seconds gets lost in the general startup time and the app is sitting there in the system tray ready to spring to life.
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>And I know there is a resource downside to this, Stephen :-D
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Just add a gig of ram for a ram disk and no performace problems. Heck we load Outlook, IE4, PcAnywhere, SBT, TIW, and our in house ERP on start up becasue people like to bitch. ;-) I love to tell them to just REBOOT if it ain't working fast enough.

Set reality on

Don't load anything in startup. Get yourself more ram than you think sane and things will work better.