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Why is my windoze so damned SLOW?
Gnome:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---This involved arranging the system files on the hard disk in the correct boot order on the first boot after installation or a major change to the system.
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ABSOLUTE RUBBISH!!!
You cannot honestly expect us to believe that mickey$loth has actually managed to properly organize system folders in a logical order, can you?
Isn't that some sort of major sin as far as they're concerned or something? I thought their system fiels were supposed to be either scattered in one illogical mass of folders, or one huge mess of files dumped in one directory, with nothing even bordering on logical or organised, or even remotely sensible.
And you expect me to believe that they actually have decently (or at least something pretending to approach decently) set things out for a change?
Absolute bollocks.
[wanders off muttering about people with silly ideas]
toadlife:
--- Quote from: Gnome ---ABSOLUTE RUBBISH!!!
You cannot honestly expect us to believe that mickey$loth has actually managed to properly organize system folders in a logical order, can you?
Isn't that some sort of major sin as far as they're concerned or something? I thought their system fiels were supposed to be either scattered in one illogical mass of folders, or one huge mess of files dumped in one directory, with nothing even bordering on logical or organised, or even remotely sensible.
And you expect me to believe that they actually have decently (or at least something pretending to approach decently) set things out for a change?
Absolute bollocks.
[wanders off muttering about people with silly ideas]
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Actually I think XP boots faster because it loads the neccessary services needed to show you the login screen first. Windows 2000 would load all of the background services before showing you the login screen, therefore making it seem a lot slower.
adiment:
XP boots much slower than 2000 becuase of all of it's useless services
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Gnome ---ABSOLUTE RUBBISH!!!
You cannot honestly expect us to believe that mickey$loth has actually managed to properly organize system folders in a logical order, can you?
Isn't that some sort of major sin as far as they're concerned or something? I thought their system fiels were supposed to be either scattered in one illogical mass of folders, or one huge mess of files dumped in one directory, with nothing even bordering on logical or organised, or even remotely sensible.
And you expect me to believe that they actually have decently (or at least something pretending to approach decently) set things out for a change?
Absolute bollocks.
[wanders off muttering about people with silly ideas]
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Not not the folders but the order of the information on the physical disk surface.
e7ement,
You're the first person I've heard say that, have you run Windows XP and 2000 on the same hardware before?
I don't agree with Microsoft on many things but I do in this instance.
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Booting
When a computer boots, many things have to happen, such as the initialization of devices and a wide variety of system functions and services. Several important changes have been made in Windows XP that dramatically reduce the time it takes for this initialization process to complete.
These changes include the following:
Improvements to the Boot Loader
Improvements to the boot loader and to a number of key drivers have made them much faster. Registry initialization is also faster, and many manufacturers have dramatically reduced the time taken by their BIOS prior to running the operating system.
I/O Can Be Overlapped with Device Initialization
Using Windows
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Shiver:
Windoze XP does boot fast, but I can only laugh at the idea it's because of any special file arrangement or such. Just look at file table using any defragmenter and you'll notice that the windoze partition has thousands of fragmented files after a couple of days since the last defragmentation - even though it was run with optimizations such as placing the files in order of last access.
On the other hand, the boot-up time on Linux depends on what distro, software and services you use. Many "regular" distros seem to come with a huge load of unneccessary stuff to make sure they run on as many systems as possible, as well as a kernel that has support for everything. My Suse 9.3 takes maybe a minute to boot up, when I tried Gentoo, it took about as long as windoze to get to the point where the login screen appears. I didn't have KDE load automatically so I can't say for sure but judging by the time Suse takes to get to the same point where Gentoo stops in text mode, it's pretty fast. Too bad I couldn't get anything else working properly on Gentoo so I switched back to Suse.
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