Why keep suffering?

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Waccoon wrote:

TiredOLife:  "To be honest, the only time I do suffer is when I do have to use the windows machine.
Wait forever for the thing to boot up and then wait again whilst the thing shuts itself down."

Get rid of your OEM Windows and get a retail copy.  My XP machine boots in 18 seconds, with Apache and MySQL in the background.  It does take a whopping 5 seconds to shut down, though.

I have a retail box of XP, takes 4 minutes 12 seconds to go from power-on to usability, and can take from 45 minutes to 5 hours to shutdown.  Yes, 5 hours.

And it's not even 4 months old an install.

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TiredOLife wrote:
@Waccoon

Wasn't aware the OEM version was slower than the full version to boot up and shut down.
Why is that?
Cheers

OEM's like packaging up a ton of junk that you cannot remove.  It's like buying a car from a dealer that adds a $200 "pinstriping" charge.

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LoadWB wrote:

downix wrote:

OEM's like packaging up a ton of junk that you cannot remove.  It's like buying a car from a dealer that adds a $200 "pinstriping" charge.

That's only relevant if you use the factory load.  The first thing I do when I get a Dell is reload using the OEM disk, everything's spit-spot.

The junk is on the OEM disk.  I have a Dell OEM, the install it gives includes such things as Dell remote diagnostic software.

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LoadWB wrote:

downix wrote:

The junk is on the OEM disk.  I have a Dell OEM, the install it gives includes such things as Dell remote diagnostic software.

You sure that's not still on the hard drive?  At this point I've done hundreds (literally *sigh*) of Dell OEM reloads and have never seen the Dell Diagnostic software installed from the CD.  At least, not as of SP1a; I haven't reinstalled Dell OEM prior to that release.

New HD in this case.