Sanity Check

I followed the link to Notes Domino Fixpack 1 published by several fellow  bloggers and downloaded the 8.5 Fixpack 1 for the Notes Client on Windows (I believe this works for client only or all client installs). For some odd reason, this FP is not listed on Fixcentral or in Passport Advantage. Also the file names for the download are back to the cryptic old code names of the past. There is a preliminary fix list published on IBM, but as to what is actually contained in this fixpack I have yet to see as there is nothing final on the site or in the actual download. If there is one thing I could magically change about IBM is consistency in how they do product maintenance releases. Anyway, I digress...I installed the client fixpack without any errors and maybe its just me, but the client seems to be starting faster. Perhaps its because I have gotten used to the client crashing on startup about 25% of the time where the progress bar slowly makes its way across the splash screen, then vanishes without any explanation. So maybe there's no actual speed improvement, but there's now less problems in the startup process that makes it appear to start faster...don't know, but I'm happy that I don't have to resort to the task manager and kill Notes processes as well as tell end users to log off/on and try again.