If you are running win98 or win95c then IE is part of the desktop and is
preloaded.  That is the most likely reason why it seems to load so fast.  Other
problems could be where on your hardrive the partitions are located.  Stuff that
is on the outer most edge have a lower latency then stuff on the inner edge when
it comes to data transfer.

>  I get the impression that you think I am knocking Linux. Not by any stretch.
> I also have the splash screen off in ie so i don't see it,  I  double click and i see yahoo.com
> almost instantaneously. I may have to many progs in Linux I really don't need and that could be a cause.