[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Combs wrote:
> I've updated the version of GNUTLS in the wireshark-win32-libs
> repository to 1.6.0.  The update includes a fix which might help the
> slow startup problem (it works for a Vista desktop here, at least).
> Please remember to run "nmake -f makefile.nmake setup" if you're
> developing on Windows.

Thank you thank you thank you!  Yes, it helps (me, at least): startup 
times have gone back to a reasonable few seconds ("Init dissectors" now 
takes 2-3 seconds instead of 30!).