Ah! That explains it. You're running into a well known but very unfortunate
situation. When the VM identifies itself as running under Windows NT (and 2K
reports itself as NT) then it needs to figure out if it has been started as
an NT service. This distinction is tremendously hard to make so I've added a
few rules that quickly reject this possibility. However, if the VM cannot
quickly reject the possibility it needs to attempt a communication with the
service manager - and that communication takes about fifteen seconds (please
don't ask me why).

The quick workaround for this problem is *not* to start Squeak simply by
double clicking on the executable but to actually drop an image onto it (one
of the quick rejection rules is that when given an explicit image name it
won't even attempt to run as a service).

Hope this helps for now,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Arseneau [mailto:eric at ericsworld.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 9:29 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Cc: recipient list not shown
> Subject: RE: [Win32] Preliminary 3.0 VM available
> 
> 
> > Very strange. Anyone else out there using Win2K experiencing this
> > problem?!
> > Also, does it happen only with the new VM or with older 
> ones as well?!
> >
> >   - Andreas
> 
> It seems that there may be a problem with my setup, since I 
> get the same
> problem with the 2.8 image.  One of mys tests involved a 
> directory with
> multiple images.  It took 15 seconds for the dialog to come 
> up and ask me to
> choose which image.
> 
> The fact that it is happening on previous VMs, may mean I 
> have something
> wrong on my machine, although it is a fresh install.
> 
> >
> > > From: Eric Arseneau [mailto:eric at ericsworld.com]
> > > Thanks Andreas for putting out the VM for us.  I do have a
> > > question, on my
> > > Pentium III 733 Mhz, running Win 2K Professional, it takes 15
> > > seconds for
> > > the image to come up ?  Do you get the same thing ?  I
> > > sometimes have to
> > > click again to make sure something happened.
>