It's not XP that's slow. It's all the Crappleware computer manufactures
saddle their machines with that kills it. I picked up a new/used laptop
that has almost nothing except XP Professional and the required
proprietary drivers and the little bugger flies. Almost as fast as
Win2K. It takes about 40 seconds for a full boot up, about half of that
until the drive light, so that's postup and loading firmware, roughly 20
seconds after that and it's ready to rock and roll.
David J Brooks wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
My wife was aggravated with Vista from the beginning due to it's
agonizingly slow boot up. I asked her a day or two ago how she liked
W7's boot up timing. Said she didn't know, "I just turn it on and go
back in the kitchen and get a cup of coffee for awhile." Old
habits..etc.. ;(
LOL
My XP machine takes a good 5 minutes to do its thing. Providing it boots.:-)
I can start the ibook and be on the internet before the P4 splash
screen has disappeared.
I'm picking my PC up Friday and will keep running it suppose. As long
as it works long enough to get my yearly calender ready for family
Xmas presents I'll be happy.
Dave
Jack
--- On Thu, 10/29/09, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
From: John Sessoms <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: OT PC Surgery
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 12:23 AM
From: Jack Davis
Decided to check this thread after seeing it for a
while now. I
installed Windows 7 this past week as I read , "it's
simplicity and
elegance challenges that of the Mac". High praise
indeed..I guess.
;) Only difference I've noticed at this point is that
I have to
reduce the pixel size of a image in order to post it
as wallpaper on
my monitor. If not it is way too large. Wasn't
necessary with Vista.
A benign tiny bother.
I'm not "upgrading" to Windows 7. I've barely reached the
point where I can tolerate Vista.
Due to my background, i.e. where I came from into
computing, how I got started, I do find Windows slightly
more congenial than Mac, but that don't mean I like it.
Micro$oft never seems to have understood the idea of "if it
ain't broke, don't fix it." They, in fact, seem sometimes
actively perverse, where they "break" things that worked
just fine.
It almost seems like it's an intentional introduction of
forced incompatibility with previous versions. I thought
they'd finally got it mostly right with XP, but it seems
like every thing they did get right with XP, they went and
changed in Vista.
Wouldn't be a problem if it only affected Micro$oft's own
software, but it screws around other things I need to use.
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