Hello Jeff, Thursday, February 3, 2011, 3:58:08 PM, you wrote:
JG> Windows may be daft but it's not that daft :-) JG> The registry is only read when data is needed from it, admittedly quite a lot at boot time, but after that only when a program needs it. JG> I have to say I long for the days of ini files, and MSFT guidelines for some years now have been for programs to JG> keep their specific data in their own (probably xml) files. Not in the Program Files directory since the days of Vista though! This PC (XP): 8 minutes to boot. Sometimes it takes 3 boots before it starts up, because it hangs twice (almost at the end of booting). If that happens I have lost half an hour. Problem first occurred after Professional insurance software to connect to several insurance companies' servers had been installed. Luckily the problem doesn't occur every day... The two pc's running Windows 7 certainly start a lot faster. But so does an older PC running the most recent Ubuntu... :-) -- Best Wishes, Mark using The Bat! 4.2.33.1 Beta ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
