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Why are computer start times so slow?
On my old Celeron 533MHz with 128MB of SD RAM, Windows XP takes approximately 1.5 minutes to boot up.  On my current Athlon X2 4200+ with 1GB of DDR SD RAM, it takes around 0.75 minutes (not including POST times).  Sure, I have more startup applications on my current machine, but considering how many times faster it is, you'd expect the load times to be a fair bit lower than that...

Looking around, I've only seen seen a few people with boot times for XP/Vista under 30 seconds.  So why haven't computer start up times increased much?


as an aside, 98lite (modified Windows 98) on my Pentium 200MHz takes roughly 30 seconds to boot up
26/10/2008 01:44 AM
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Why are computer start times so slow? - ZiNgA BuRgA - 26/10/2008 01:44 AM
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