Just confirming Bruno DeLoroux observation that cygwin starts very very slowly on some Windows XP installations. And "ls" is fairly slow. My Desktop PC is generally faster than my laptop, but the situation is reversed with regards to these cygwin activities; startup is painful on the Desktop.

Burt

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