|
|
|||||||
| Technology Computing, programming, science, electronics, telecommunications, etc. |
| View Poll Results: How often do you typically reboot? | |||
| Never... only as required by updates or intallations |
   
|
11 | 37.93% |
| Daily |
  
|
10 | 34.48% |
| Whenever the urge takes me |
  
|
1 | 3.45% |
| weekly-biweekly |
  
|
2 | 6.90% |
| other |
  
|
5 | 17.24% |
| Voters: 29. You may not vote on this poll | |||
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|
07-27-2010, 11:35 PM
|
#1 |
|
Read? I only know how to write.
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 11,933
|
Slow Windows starting is not due to Windows. Many programs (ie Adobe Reader) load all kinds of preliminary programs when you first boot the machine. Therefore the program (ie Reader) appears to load faster when you click on it. Meanwhile you might blame Windows for taking so long.
I have forgotten the command. But you can view a list of all programs that must load when Windows first starts. Then remove many of them so that Windows boots faster. Or simply Hibernate. Hibernate is a complete power down so that programs need not reload when you restart the machine. So that Windows can reboot much faster. |
|
|
|
07-28-2010, 10:00 AM
|
#2 | |
|
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
|
Quote:
There is a much more comprehensive startup tool in Sysinternals: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx However, if your system is booting for 8 minutes, then the first 5 minutes are still Windows doing its thing. Windows has always been a slow booter. |
|
|
|
|
|
07-29-2010, 07:04 AM
|
#3 |
|
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
From cold... 7 takes 45 seconds to come up, and virtual XP (including outlook express and photoshop), just over a minute. Under 2 minutes total.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
|
|
|
|
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|
Hybrid Mode
