> From: "Elizabeth Wootten" <elizabeth.woot...@antixlabs.com> > Cc: <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org> > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:40:24 +0100 > > Does emacs normally do any sort of network access on startup?
It looks for many files, so if network access is involved, that could be slow. Emacs 24.3 actually should be much faster than previous versions, but it looks like in your case that's not enough.