Windows 7 boots slower than Vista?
I add this one to the "you'd-have-to-be-a-geek-to-care" category but, Iolo Technologies, a California software firm, is claiming that Windows 7 boots about 42% slower than Vista. This contradicts Microsoft's claims that Windows 7's boot time was actually less than Vista's.
Now, I suspect that this is all in the eye of the beholder. Having used a release client of Windows 7, I do see it as starting faster but, I was looking at the time it took for the desktop and icons to fully appear. However, Iolo went a step further in its analysis to look at the time it took for the entire boot process to stop consuming CPU. This is what they termed as the time it took for the system to become "fully usable".
Again, this is more for us geeks because we are talking a difference between Iolo's measurement of 1 minute, 6 seconds for Vista vs 1 minute, 34 seconds for Windows 7. I know that, in computer processing time, a lot can happe in 28 seconds but, to be honest, 28 seconds is not going to matter a whole lot to home users with one big exception -- Microsoft is going to have to win back consumer opinion after the P.R. mess that was Vista.
Faster or slower? I guess that it's all to be determined after Windows 7 is in the hands of consumers.
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