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.

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[ffutures.livejournal.com]

At a guess the icons will include a keyboard driver for your language, windows defender (a little castle), windows security manager (shield), whatever anti-virus program you use, the "start Microsoft Office a little faster" thingy, sound and graphics control thingys, maybe something for the firewall if you're using a separate product, an icon if you have any USB device plugged in, a vertical yellow shield thing if Windows is trying to update, MSN messenger etc., and so forth. Moving the mouse cursor over them without clicking should tell you what they are.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Those I figured out. The mysterious ones seem to have to do with odd bits of hardware, like the trackpad, fingerprint scanner and (for some bizarre reason) the BIOS. Plus one that sort of looks like the Frost Armor icon from WoW, that doesn't show a tooltip and doesn't react to mouse clicks in any detectable way.

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

Is the laptop connected to the internet at startup and does this make any difference? Last time when XP broke on my machine, it started up just as slowly. In my case this was because it couldn't connect to the internet anymore (trouble with the ip-address), but some program that opened on startup made it wait until it was absolutely sure it couldn't connect.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Yes it is, and no it doesn't.