Can I ask what would be considered an acceptable startup time? Times under 2 seconds seem pretty good to me. I'm just curious to know what the general expectation is? Tim On 31 January 2018 at 16:18, George Plymale II wrote: > > try let-binding file-name-handler-alist to nil -- in my case, that gave > > a significant speed-up a few months ago > > I have done that. It did help my startup time as well, but I still have > the issues which I've described. > > -- regards, Tim -- Tim Cross