The Windows Vista Experience: Week 2 starts

[cdybedahl]

It is with some wryness we note that "Windows Defender" (Microsoft's anti-spyware thing) at the end of a scan doesn't say that it didn't find anything bad, it says that the machine is running normally.

I'd heard that Vista was supposed to boot faster than earlier Windowses. Maybe it does. Depending on how you measure. It's pretty quick to get to the login screen, and to let you log in (which I can do by fingerprint, in of the genuinely nifty features of this box). It does, however, take fourteen minutes before I can actually do anything. Like read mail, or start Firefox. That's not particularly fast, IMAO.

Comments

[zastrazzi.livejournal.com]

14 sounds excessive, and every one of them is a program that loads on boot. The biggest problem with store bought laptops with a pre-installed OS is they install a bunch of crap you probably don't want, and install it with defaults.... and programmers LOVE to have their program start on boot.

The trick is to identify the ones you don't want started at boot time. Office and messengers are good bets to turn off, you can start them manually when you need them.

And yes, 2G of ram is what most geeks consider the minimum when it comes to Vista.