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No wonder it takes so damn long to boot
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: SirPeale on January 19, 2010, 12:44:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 18, 2010, 08:01:48 pm ---I'm surprised you ran to your arcade machine to fix it. ::)
What is 30 seconds?
Try TinyXp with less than 30 seconds boot time if so impatient...
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What's with the attitude? If he wants to shave time off his boot, that's a GOOD thing.
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No attitude intended, I thought it was odd that 30 seconds saved for boot was such a big deal enough to make a post about.
It wasn't that long ago that when you turned on your PC it took 15 seconds just to boot to DOS.
If my Windows 7 machine booted in less than 30 seconds I would be reinstalling it. On average it takes well over a minute with minimal services.
I have a night sky background on my Win 7 x64 machine and after removing it did not acheive any speed increase.
Probably the better response should have been: Maybe the OP should check to see if his drivers are up to date.
Xiaou2:
The more powerful the hardware, the more the Company's will create software so
Obese / Bloated, Buggy and Unoptimized ...that you will never be able to have a
"Fast" PC.
Why?
Deals with Hardware manufacturers.
If a PC operated like lightning, and only an actual computer could tell the difference
in speed between a $500 computer, and a $2000 computer... Many people
wouldnt upgrade for well over 10 years.
You have to laugh, when people running BSMS Office on a decked out PC is still
DOG slow on a brand new quad core PC with 8gigs of ram, a HD with higher
bandwidth and rotational speeds... As it was when they ran it
back in 500 mhz days and 32mb ram. :laugh2: What a sad sad joke.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on January 19, 2010, 10:26:31 pm ---
The more powerful the hardware, the more the Company's will create software so
Obese / Bloated, Buggy and Unoptimized ...that you will never be able to have a
"Fast" PC.
Why?
Deals with Hardware manufacturers.
If a PC operated like lightning, and only an actual computer could tell the difference
in speed between a $500 computer, and a $2000 computer... Many people
wouldnt upgrade for well over 10 years.
You have to laugh, when people running BSMS Office on a decked out PC is still
DOG slow on a brand new quad core PC with 8gigs of ram, a HD with higher
bandwidth and rotational speeds... As it was when they ran it
back in 500 mhz days and 32mb ram. :laugh2: What a sad sad joke.
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Not wanting to rub salt to this issue, but indeed my IBM thinkpad (P2-300-128mb) 240 boots faster with Windows 2000 than does my Laptop (Santa Rosa) with XP. Heck my original Xbox boots 15 seconds straight into my arcade front end and that is a P3!
It goes back to my original post. I read the article again and incidentally the issue surrounding the 30 second boot delay was in the RC version not retail. So if the OP is using the RC version of Windows 7, it will expire soon anyway, so I would just use your old XP license on that arcade PC. ;)
Why are we so much more impatient today when just 10 years ago, we dreamed of 90 second boot times?
Its not just PC boot times, its also waiting in line or slow traffic.
When was the last time you clock watched 90 seconds? :dunno
Let's not even go there :laugh2:
IG-88:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 20, 2010, 07:15:12 am ---Windows 7, it will expire soon anyway, so I would just use your old XP license on that arcade PC. ;)
Why are we so much more impatient today when just 10 years ago, we dreamed of 90 second boot times?
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Why would a person need anything more than xp in a mame cab anyway? Using win7 is like putting a Ferrari engine in a Pinto.
Dreamed of 90 sec boot times? Heck I've had all my OS's from XP on down booting in less than 30. And my 2 DOS machines are up in under 15.
saurian333:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 19, 2010, 05:15:53 pm ---I thought it was odd that 30 seconds saved for boot was such a big deal enough to make a post about.
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Matter of perspective, really. My Ubuntu machine (as up-to-date as my Win7 machine) boots in 45 seconds, so adding 30 to that would be kind of a big deal.
If you're running Vista on a 2GHz/1GB machine, then it probably takes 5 minutes, and 30 seconds is less noticeable. :P
--- Quote from: Xaiou2 ---The more powerful the hardware, the more the Company's will create software so
Obese / Bloated, Buggy and Unoptimized ...that you will never be able to have a
"Fast" PC.
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As long as you're relying on Windows, pre-assembled machines, and closed-source software, that is true.