Well not sure about others here, but my Mac doesn't take anywhere near
five minutes to boot. It takes maybe 45 seconds, tops, and that's only
after an unclean shutdown. It's normally somewhere between 15 to 25
seconds until it's booted up and at the login screen. So I guess in my
case it wouldn't be particularly useful. And bare in mind that if MS
didn't bloat windows Vista so bad it wouldn't have taken five minutes
to boot in the first place, although I'm a bit sceptical about that.
Even Vista which is very slow indeed booted faster for me on the
systems I've used it on, more like two minutes or so which is still a
pretty long time. Further, I'd be a bit nervous about the impact this
instant-on feature would have for viruses and other malware, they may
get loaded even earlier and some of them are hard enough to kill as it
is.
On Oct 17, 2008, at 12:31, Babcock, Michael Alex wrote:
This would be nice:D
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
Date: October 17, 2008 2:52:10 AM GMT-08:00
Subject: Microsoft Testing Instant On: Quick Windows Start Up
Source: Quick Online Tips
Author: QuickOnlineTips
My Microsoft Windows Vista has a long start up time after
rebooting. I always wondered if I could instantly turn on Windows
and start working on my Computer. It seems the Microsoft guys read
my mind.
Engadget reports that Microsoft is surveying a select group of
users about what they think about the Instant On Windows feature.
The survey is asking the readers…
“Instant On takes your computer from being completely powered down
or “turned off” to being usable for a few specific activities is a
very short amount of time. Instant On experience is different from
‘Full Windows’ because it limits what activities you can do and
what applications you have access to.”
I would really welcome this feature. It would be great if Windows
would let me perform some frequently used tasks and activities and
continue to load in the background for as long as it likes. It
would be interesting ifWindows 7 will have this feature. Meanwhile
do you know how to shut down Windows XP in one click.
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