The search is fine.... It is only the initial load....

I will have to root around,..
>Hi John,
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>>I don't know.. You would think a Dell 400mhz Laptop with 384 mb of Ram running Windows 2000 Server and about 8 gb of free disk space would be enough......
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>>When MSDN is fired up for the first time, it takes anywhere form 10-15 seconds. Subsequent startups take about 5 seconds...
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>That's really strange. I've a similar configuration, just as a desktop. And it takes a second to fire up MSDN, the first search on the search tab takes 2 seconds, all other subsecond. The index page takes a second to load the first time, after that is subsecond.
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>Have you had someone check your configuration?
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>Chrsitof