Speeding up login (newbie)

[Jochen Liske <jol roe ac uk>]

Hi,

I was wondering whether there is any way of speeding up the login process.
For example, I'm (still) running RedHat 6.2 and just after logging in and
before doing anything else (apparently) Gnome is showing me the png file
/usr/share/pixmaps/redhat/gnome-startup.png
Is there any way of telling Gnome not to bother with that?

Thanks,
Joe