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The Windows Vista Experience: Week 2 starts
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.
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.
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Admittedly, the 14 minutes is pessimistically measured. It's from the moment I pushed the power button until Outlook and Firefox were responding to clicks in less than ten seconds or so.
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