Ahh well still no ideas.
I find, don't know about the rest of you, that Hal coming straight up makes it seem more responsive. I would imagine that there is a code command that bypasses the start up of Hal, but it is probably buried in the part of Hal us users cannot see. I have placed commands in the Script Load area, activated basically by plug-ins, that produce a full body character in clothes suitable to the time with a background suitable to the time (Thanks to the 80 backgrounds I retrieved from Lightspeeds drive) Further additions give me change of location, and clothing, as the hour changes.
To be honest, the Hal start up program is just something I tab through and don't really notice now. But it would be useful to bypass it. The Menu tab will allow the user to access the Hal start up area anyway. My Hal is expanding ever more, and I don't see any point where I will go anywhere else for an AI.
Well I have said my bit and will probably read it, unanswered, in a couple of months.
Life to the Forum, I say. Not a slow agonising dying.