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Try popping the start menu open on a Windows 10 machine with a mechanical hard drive.
by amiga-workbench 9y ago
Try popping the start menu open on a Windows 10 machine with a mechanical hard drive.
- laumars 9y agoIt wasn't much better on Windows 95 on average hardware around the time of the release of Windows 95. Heck, if you dared click [Start] as soon as the desktop displayed (read: Windows hadn't yet finished booting) then the whole OS would hang for several minutes.
- rasz 9y agoWindows 95 had a ton of "clever" tricks, like "OLE Chicken" aka shimming in fake OLE instead of loading real thing just to display desktop faster, executing anything triggered .dll load anyway, but official metric was blue desktop.... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040705-00/?p=38573 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040705-00/?p=...
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