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by jkopeck

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I have a Win98 system and ran Boot Log Analyzer to find out why it was taking sooo long to boot up. It showed that IFSHLP.SYS is taking over 22 seconds to load. I have searched the registry, config.sys, & the win.ini with no luck. Can anyone HELP PLEASE! Thanks, Jay

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Ifshlp.sys is the 32-bit Installable File System Manager, the services provided by this driver used to assist in trapping real-mode file system and network-related APIs.
Problems with this file can usally be found in "messed up" Netbeui drivers or none compliant network drivers. If you can try swapping the nic for another make and see if the performace improves. If no performace change is noted I'd then start checking the system over for modified real-mode drivers. These can generally be foundwith the intallation of CDRW software, DVD software, 16-Bit image database software and other applications of this sort.

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