Fellow Squeakers,

I have found on the Win32 VMs for the past few generations that all you
have to do is to provide a path, not an image name and it really speeds up
Squeak startup.  I usually have sevferal images in my Squeak directory so I
have to choose the one I need (Drawings, Netmodel, Scratch, etc).
Providing a path on the command line in the shortcut makes the file chooser
come up within a couple of seconds.  Failing to do so makes you wait for
five to ten seconds depending on your CPU and network activity.  This same
trick seems to hold for the Croquet VM as well.

Squeak is seriously cool,
tap