When I logged on earlier this afternoon, it took an extraordinarily long time for my computer (a 7300 Power Macintosh) to load anything… much longer than usual, anyway. I tried restarting, and that didn’t help. Then I realized that I had left my Palm connected, so I tried disconnecting it and restarting. Now things are loading much more quickly. Even though my Palm wasn’t on, was it influencing how quickly I could read stuff off the net, or was it something else (some time did pass before I disconnected the Palm)? How would just having it plugged in do that?
It could have just been a fluke, cured by restarting.
OTOH, are you sure your Palm was off?
Odd Computers? Are they anything like Emachines Computers?
Any time you have anything connected to a computer it takes longer to boot. Ive got a network, the other computers are off but itll still take time to find that out.
mine seems to take a long while to shut down because of the network
sailor, if its a W98 machine you can change the system settings to speed things up. I only do that because the other network computers are only used rarely.
Handy I am running win95 OSR2 on this machine.
Now that you mentioned it I believe the other one, which uses win98, does shut down much faster. Is there any trick so that this one will do the same?