thepcspy.com — After Oli's last article on what slows Windows boot times, there were many comments for a second set of tests, including some other apps. And so..here we go..ever wonder what slows down windows boot times, I/O times etc? This second article goes a little more in depth and answers that and a few other questions.
Sep 22, 2006 View in Crawl 4
cwanjaSep 23, 2006
This is a duplicate I believe.
mr804Sep 23, 2006
He he's full of crap about vmware. I find it boots XP faster than a real box does.
Closed AccountSep 23, 2006
Thanks for sharing.
Closed AccountSep 23, 2006
I just wish XP would use the RAM that people currently have. My home machine has 2gb of ddr400 and it'll start paging before I run out of available ram. That's just stupid and hurts laptop battery life and causes unnecessary wear and tear on hard drives.
Closed AccountSep 23, 2006
"The largest thing that slows windows boot time down is Windows."You don't realize how stupid that sounds, do you?
bagofmiceSep 23, 2006
I should add the fact that the problem I was talking about would be the latency from a round trip get to check the reputation of a given url. It's not pretty, but it's not like the target audience will notice.
Closed AccountSep 23, 2006
There is no chance that the Microsoft "anti-malware" and "anti-virus" software will actually work. The claimed "heuristics" are marketing baloney (there aren't any real programmers in Redmond anymore) and the first thing the virus writers and phishers will do is find the easy ways to avoid detection by the Microsoft "protection" products!There are NO "anti-virus" programs that CAN work - it is the work of just a few minutes to put together something malicious and disseminate it. The "anti-virus" companies won't see a copy of it for several days (at best), by which time half the world's infected. It is then just the work of a few minutes more to change the viral code, once it's been added to the signature files of these so-called "security" products, to further avoid detection.Game Over, Microsoft
huggy1122Sep 25, 2006
How many posts are you going to... erm... post?!
bartswordfishSep 25, 2006
I have to be completely honest about this article. Typically I love it when someone takes the time to dig deep into such a topic; however, I couldn't help but notice that the author bills himself as a "guru level web developer." Well, he might be a fantastic web developer but he is seriously lacks "web designer" skills. thepcspy.com...without a doubt one of the worst looking web sites I've ever seen. Terrible navigation...basically made the entire article almost impossible to read.
himselfOct 25, 2007
did you mean OpenBios?