Windows 7 to get ‘instant on’ mode?

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Matt_H wrote:
Or they could just improve the efficiency of the damn thing so that it actually boots in 8 seconds, like another certain operating system we know...

Talk about mixed up priorities. With the power of today's PC hardware, they should be ashamed of themselves that the OS is just as slow as ever, if not slower.

Its a an absolute disgrace: We have multi-core cpu hardware that benchmarks 100 times faster than a 68060 @ 50 mhz, RAM thats bigger than most Amiga hard drives, with data transfer speed both from ram and hard drive 100 times faster and yet it still takes as long as ever to start your computer!!

This has come about because Vista has been a massive failure due to the fact that the average computer user will not play the hardware upgrade game anymore just to get a new icon theme.  MS knows they had better give people something worth their money or else people will be using their  3 gig ram XP systems for another 10 years.  I had Vista business on a HP mininote and it was a resource hog and offered NOTHING that I couldn't do faster on XP.  NOTHING.

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sorry double post.

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detz wrote:
Doesn't windows do some caching of all the contents of the hard drives too during the boot in order to give the impression of instantly accessing directories etc?

 Yes its called superfetch and indexing and thats why when you get a new pc with Vista the hard drive is ALWAYS on, slowing everything down to a crawl as it builds up its index. This can take a week or two depending on how often you turn it on. And it never really stops: just indexing times aren't as long. AND it defrags your drive virtually all the time.