I agree as long as any screen asking the question has one of those "Donot ask this again" check boxes to turn off the prompt.

I can't seem to vote for some reason (tells me I already voted every time on all topics), but I'd demote this one if I could.

I like the theory, but I don't think this is something the user should do, nor should IBM spend much time developing a feature. This is a feature that the administrators should push out to the users with group policies, login scripts, etc. It's not difficult to push out an extra icon to all deskptops running R8.5 called 'Notes Lite' or 'Notes Fast' that points to the nl exe, along with the regular 'Notes' icon that's installed by default.

Agreed, Mike. Though, the admin might think certain machines perform well and don't. Sometimes proper hardware specs still provide a suboptimal end-user experience due to such issues as a fragmented drive -- which you only see on Window machines -- or low virtual memory/swap space. So, any info the admin can receive to ensure that the end-user is happy is a good thing. The delivery of such tool is a separate but coupled discussion.

I agree with the policy aspect, but I'd also like a prompt to use Basic in two scenarios:

Not enough resources (RAM, processor, etc) on the PC, OR - Notes cratered or NSD'd the last time I ran it.

@4 I don't know that an NSD situation is sufficient to confuse a user with a different UI when booting. Pre-Eclipse, Notes would NSD occasionally and no one screamed for Eclipse to stop the crashes. It's more pressing to fix the crashes cause and continue.

The interface is important and keeping things consistent is critical for end-user success. Perhaps the power users would not mind a quick respite whilst their support team investigated further, but the average user will dislike seeing that and start mumbling about how Notes s*s.

A prompt for poor resources might be o.k. though.