SP1 clears the Prefetch cache, so it may take several boots before startup time is optimized again.
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail) -------------------------------------------------- From: "Thane Sherrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Here is the funny part. From what I've read, SP1 is supposed to speed up Vista. But in every test I've done (five systems so far, and one clean install) SP1 slows the first two benchmarks by from 30% to 50%. Now I find that ridiculous. I haven't read up on SP1, so maybe it's giving all sorts of other exciting new features and the "better stability and performance" that MS talks about wasn't the main purpose, but one would think that given that performance is one of the huge complaints about Vista, MS would have tried to do something to make it faster. (And since boot time and shutdown time are two of the major areas that end users recognize as issues, these would be something to look at.)
