Startup Delay

I have just installed Windows 98 (First Edition) on a Pentium 166 machine
for my daughter to use. Everything works fine but when booting the machine
the Windows splash screen appears during which there are about 15 seconds of
harddrive activity followed by almost a minute of no activity whatsoever
before the machine starts to complete its boot process and the desktop
appears. The machine has a sound card, network card (not connected
externally), a video card and a modem card. There are no applications
installed.
Is the long delay normal for Win 98? If not, does anyone have any idea what
the delay may be caused by and how to shorten it?
Bob Greenwood

Bob Greenwood wrote in message ...
I have just installed Windows 98 (First Edition) on a Pentium 166 machine
for my daughter to use. Everything works fine but when booting the machine
the Windows splash screen appears during which there are about 15 seconds of
harddrive activity followed by almost a minute of no activity whatsoever
before the machine starts to complete its boot process and the desktop
appears. The machine has a sound card, network card (not connected
externally), a video card and a modem card. There are no applications
installed.
Is the long delay normal for Win 98? If not, does anyone have any idea what
the delay may be caused by and how to shorten it?
Bob Greenwood

Setting your Ethernet adapter to a non-routable IP address
will speed up the boot process.

Click on Start Settings Control Panel Network Configuration

Click to highlight the TCP/IP bound to the Ethernet card.

Click to select Properties

Select the IP Address tab, select Specify, and assign an internal IP address
such as 192.168.0.10, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0

Thank you Hugh. That cut the delay way down.
Bob