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This has always been an issue (I guess) that FS9 takes forever to start up and takes forever to get the aircraft menu up and if I minimize the game while I am in the menu I can't get it back up, all I see is the rotating AC. Any clues as to why it does that?
AMD Athlon x2 4800+ 2.5ghz
3gb RAM
320gb HD
8800GT 512mb
Vista HP

 A Quote from another forum; "Have you got extended terrain textures ticked, if so try un ticking it. You won't really gain anything by having it ticked (except more time to fly)"

Don't know why your having problems after minimizing, but as for startup, that usually occurs when you have tons upon tons of addons in your program, and the sim basically needs to get everything ready for you to access. Before I reinstalled and started from scratch a few days ago, my sim would take about five minutes to fully startup.  :)

Hmm mine is quite fast actually. fsx was like this for me! Maybe because you have vista :-? :-/