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Microsoft faked the startup speed beginning with WinXP too. In Windows 2000 it took a long time to see the desktop. To speed it up in WinXP they show the deskto
by frik 13y ago
Microsoft faked the startup speed beginning with WinXP too. In Windows 2000 it took a long time to see the desktop. To speed it up in WinXP they show the desktop quit early but several startup-processes are still running with higher priority. So you had to wait til the hour-class was gone and the UI reacted to mouse clicks. Well the same was true for earlier MacOS X like 10.4 Tiger were you could watch and wait the spinning ball.
Nowadays with multi-core CPUs and SSD you won't notice such effects.
Windows 2000 boot to desktop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBdy9zxNVEw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBdy9zxNVEw
Windows XP boot to desktop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHgCrbcu0Ow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHgCrbcu0Ow
- derekp7 13y agoSystemd on Linux now does the same thing. On an SSD, it is really fast. On an older hard drive with slow seek times, you get a bit of thrashing which causes the overall boot time to be a tad bit slower in some cases.