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My Acer aspire 7 is pretty useable... once you remember that Windows 10 is not truly done booting until it has checked for updates. (I also disabled everything

• jhallenworld 7y ago
  Yeah, at one point they put in a lot of work to get the power on to Windows screen up time fast. But it's a scam.. Windows is not done booting until the hard drive drops below being pegged at 100%, which takes another 4 minutes.
  • Sohcahtoa82 7y ago
    They also greatly increased boot speed with their hybrid shutdown method. Since Windows 8, when you tell the system to shut down, it actually just closes all your programs and then hibernates the kernel. Learned this the hard way when I was interning as a tester for an audio driver. Sometimes the driver would get into a bad state, and you could power cycle the system and the driver would still be a bad state. I created a batch file that would run the shutdown command with a flag to initiate a complete shutdown rather than a kernel hibernation, which was necessary to reset the state of the driver.