I use Win98 SE in VMWare. - My old installation boots very slow. Using Boot Log Analyzer, i've found crazy (40 sec) delay between last DOS driver and VMM32.VXD boot. - New installation didn't suffer from this issue (delay was 2 sec max, boot was 12 sec). - But after several hours installing different programs and updates, problem raised again (20 sec delay). - I've tried to defrag and clean up everything; no effect. - I've tried to remove my svga logo loader; no effect. - Then i've deleted smartdrv.exe. It is only file being loaded between DOS and VMM32.VXD. - It helped! Delay lowered down to 4 sec. - It helped for old installation too! So, the question: did anyone have expirienced such issue? Has anyone tried working without smartdrv.exe? I haven't noticed slowdowns without smartdrv.exe.