Just shut W7 Home Premium down, gave it a couple minutes and re-booted. Took 'prox 1 min and 45 secs to come up with live icons. Don't know if any cash influence with such a brief shut down.(?)
Jack --- On Thu, 10/29/09, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > From: David J Brooks <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT PC Surgery > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 8:06 AM > 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. > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the > link > >> directly above and follow the directions. > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
