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

[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.