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For those of you just getting around to installing the Notes 8 Client, you will need to ask yourself do I install the Notes 8 Client running on the Eclipse Framework or do I install the "Basic" Notes 8 Client which has no Eclipse Framework.  If your wondering how much bigger the Eclipse Notes 8 Client is, here are some quick metrics to consider.

Size of Install Package Notes 8 Eclipse:  450megs
Size of Install Package Notes 8 Basic:  184 megs
Time to Launch Notes 8 Eclipse:   10+ seconds
Time to Launch Notes 8 Basic:  2 seconds
(Time measurements based on Thinkpad T60p w/ 2Gig RAM)

Now back to the original question.  If you install the Notes 8 Client running on the Eclipse Framework, you will notice the shortcut points to "notes.exe".  Well, in the past, people would create their own shortcut and point it to "nlnotes.exe" so they could bypass the Splash screen and save some time on startup.  

If you create a shortcut that uses the "nlnotes.exe" in Notes 8, you not only bypass the Splash screen, you also bypass the Eclipse Framework.

Now I keep both shortcuts on my desktop so I can quickly switch between them during a demo or switch to the Basic Notes 8 Client when running memory resource intensive applications like Virtualization Software.