Author Topic: Windows Vista Beta 2 (Read 1872 times)

lukster · « **Reply #45 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:03:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Quoted for truth. There is no compelling reason to upgrade at all. lukster, how long does your Vista system take to boot? From the time my XP boot record starts, to the time I am at the desktop, is 22 seconds. And that is on a 1.8Ghz P4 w/512MB of RAM and an IDE HD.

My home system boots even faster.

By the way, I ran Vista on both, and it booted slower.

Both take 45 seconds on my pc. Both load windows defender and xp loads norton av while vista loads pc-cillin. As I mentioned, XP boots from a sata2 and Vista from a sata1 drive. This is on a dual core 3.2 pentium system with 2GB memory. The review I linked benchmarked Vista as booting slower than XP. I'm just reporting my results.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #46 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:05:15 PM »

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Originally posted by lukster
Everyone loves to bash Microsoft (me included). A year within it's release and you'll all be running it.

I'm still running Windows 2000 Pro.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #47 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:07:34 PM »

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Originally posted by lukster
Both take 45 seconds on my pc. Both load windows defender and xp loads norton av while vista loads pc-cillin. As I mentioned, XP boots from a sata2 and Vista from a sata1 drive. This is on a dual core 3.2 pentium system with 2GB memory. The review I linked benchmarked Vista as booting slower than XP. I'm just reporting my results.

Uh, Norton AV is highly bloated and can more than double boot times. It is not part of the OS. So you really do not know how fast XP can boot, versus Vista.

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Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
I'm still running Windows 2000 Pro.

I run it on my work system, and one of my home systems.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #48 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:13:22 PM »

Good to hear Skuzzy. My $15 a month should keep me hooked up with you and I'll be able to use you to help me keep it (2000 Pro) running for quite some time.

xrtoronto · « **Reply #49 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:14:32 PM »

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My home system boots even faster.

Only a couple of years ago I discovered the "standby" mode and have used it ever since. No more boot up. (except on reboot)

Now when I first go to use the puter after being on standby, it is all ready to go in about 10 sec

Anyone else use this feature?

Sandman · « **Reply #50 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:25:00 PM »

I shut my machine down completely. AFAIK, if it's on, the fans are running and if the fans are running, the machine is ingesting dust and if the machine is ingesting dust, I'll have to open it up and clean it more often. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

lukster · « **Reply #51 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:30:12 PM »

I should mention that I am running 64 bit versions of both. I know Norton adds significanlty to the boot time but I don't know that it adds more than pc-cillin. The machine is fast enough that I can do whatever I want and not wish for more horsepower.

Well, maybe that last isn't completely true.

Black Sheep · « **Reply #52 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:33:19 PM »

My Mac system takes about 10 seconds from power on to desktop - literally - about 1 minute on my XP machine.......

lukster · « **Reply #53 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:35:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Black Sheep
My Mac system takes about 10 seconds from power on to desktop - literally - about 1 minute on my XP machine.......

My commodore 64 takes less than that.

Nilsen · « **Reply #54 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:37:16 PM »

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My Mac system takes about 10 seconds from power on to desktop - literally - about 1 minute on my XP machine.......

Mine takes abit longer, but still faster than the XP

What mac do you have?

lukster · « **Reply #55 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:39:24 PM »

BTW, my mouse has 8 buttons and I use them all in games. How many does the MAC have?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #56 on:** August 01, 2006, 04:06:23 PM »

Just FYI: You cannot run Windows XP longer than 43 consecutive days. The system clock gets whacked if you do. You have to reboot at least once every 42 days.
Windows 2000 does not suffer this problem. Vista does not appear to either.

MAC's boot faster due to the OS being in ROM, rather than loading from the disk drive. It is also UNIX based now, which accounts for even faster booting. My Linux box boots a heck of a lot faster than any Windows box would.

Reschke · « **Reply #57 on:** August 01, 2006, 04:42:38 PM »

Picked up a Linux magazine at the bookstore right down the road today and it has the latest build (at press time) of Ubuntu. Its been a long time since I played with Linux in any version but I am going to give this one a shot. Maybe it will work for what I want which is to make it easier on the wife to have her own system that won't get fugged up when she starts doing stuff on it.

Vulcan · « **Reply #58 on:** August 01, 2006, 06:43:31 PM »

All of my windows PC's boot real fast. Most of the time I simply hibernate. No reason for a complete shutdown.

Nilsen watchout for some major mac announcements in the next week, apparently something is brewing. All the channel managers from around the globe are attending some big announcement at a conference in San-somewhere this weekend.

Elfie · « **Reply #59 on:** August 01, 2006, 07:01:03 PM »

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Just FYI: You cannot run Windows XP longer than 43 consecutive days. The system clock gets whacked if you do. You have to reboot at least once every 42 days.

What happens on day 43?