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To: jim kelley who wrote (74792)	1/3/2000 7:05:00 AM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Jim-- from trying to put together what cpq is saying along with the industry,, it seems there may be an excess of "junk" on the start up that uses more memory than is available. It could also be loading faster than it verifys and dumps. As companies want to put more available to the customer that becomes a problem. Hell, I have to double click for my internet connection while these machines load a little program so you just have to press 1 button.. that kind of "junk" requires memory. When a ton of it comes at once the 'freeze' begins. Still, engineers should have caught that long before these machines went out the door,,, not good for a company that needs all the good news it can find did not need to piss off customers that could have been great word of mouth advertising.

To: jim kelley who wrote (74792)	1/3/2000 10:08:00 AM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 97611

I have several friends w/new machines (Dell, Micron) w/similar problems.

To: jim kelley who wrote (74792)	1/3/2000 12:50:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Jim - CPQ appears to be unique in addressing this issue early and proactively... Although it has nothing to do with CPQ hardware, it is in a sense created by the large number of "included" programs that the Presario people loaded onto the high end systems. DELL, GTW and Micron systems also experience the problem, in fact every machine using Windows since 1986 has experienced the problem and there is plenty of info on the various company websites about it including MSFT. The combination of Win98 second edition, which used a lot of resource all by itself, and the other "resident" programs that people think they need seems to have made it a lot more visible.