Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Apr 2007 16:35 UTC, submitted by Flatline
"Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those possible with Windows XP? Something obviously went awry. As Computerworld is reporting, a number of Vista users are none too happy about Vista boot-up times. Some are questioning whether Microsoft is advocating that users just put Vista into sleep mode, as opposed to shutting down systems on a daily basis, to mask the sluggish boot up."
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2006-10-10
I had a dual boot [for a while, until I realized that Fedora was useless] with Vista and Fedora on an HP nc8430. Vista booted in about the time you mentioned...13 - 15 seconds [after bios] to a logon prompt. Fedora took 45 seconds. I'm sure if I read manuals, recompiled code, Googled for a few hours, and played with "*.conf" files I could have reduced the boot time, but I actually have to work.
Edited 2007-04-11 18:12