Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st Sep 2008 08:55 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
A common topic of discussion in the Windows world - in fact, in any operating system - is boot performance. Many systems take a long time to reach a usable desktop from the moment the power switch is pressed, and this can be quite annoying if it takes too long. In a post on the Engineering 7 blog, Michael Fortin, lead engineer of Microsoft's Fundamentals/Core Operating System Group, explains what Microsoft is doing to make Windows 7 boot faster.
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There's already some boot-time diagnostic tools which Microsoft and others have been using for a while to visualize and track boot performance. The older tool was called BootVis and it was for XP and 2k3. These days, the tool of choice is xbootmgr which produces disk and cpu daya with markings to correleate them to driver and software startup.
Getting stuff to run before login isn't really that hard in Windows. There's always been a facility for running startup scripts through Group Policy.