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

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

14 minutes?! It sounds like you have a lot of stuff, or something freakishly slow, running at startup that is bogging it down. I don't think I've ever seen a PC take that long to be useful - even a P2-400 *dog* of a laptop running XP Pro on 128MB RAM.

I've only had limited exposure to Vista, mainly helping other people setup new PCs, but one of the things I noticed was it did start fast and I could get Firefox running in just a couple of minutes from power on - but this was on recent hardware (AMD Turion X2, Core 2 Duo, etc) with 1GB RAM or better.

[zastrazzi.livejournal.com]

Being one of those linux evangelists, I'd be first in line to knock a Microsoft product... but this sounds a lot more like you either don't have current hardware, or nowhere near enough RAM in that thing.

Either that or there are startup items that take a bazillionty and one years to load up and don't free up resources til they're done.

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

I have long been fascinated at how many boot screens there are. Over the years, I have crashed on every one.