Stan Silvert [http://community.jboss.org/people/ssilvert] commented on the document "AS 7 startup time showdown" To view all comments on this document, visit: http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-16971#comment-6903 -------------------------------------------------- I got my best time using both that option and runing the 32-bit cmd.exe (overkill, I know).  It did seem to shave off about 50ms. --------------------------------------------------