On 12-01-15 11:58 AM, Sean Dennis -> Ed Vance wrote:
 SD> Hello, Ed.

 SD> Saturday January 14 2012 at 22:38, you wrote to TOM WALKER:

 EV>> I am glad that what I saw was 'normal stuff' for Vista.

 SD> That's normal for Windows 7 and some distributions of Linux also. It's
 SD> simply because the desktop loads faster than the booting of the TCP/IP
 SD> stack. No big deal. I get that on my netbook whenever I boot up.

I've had the feeling for quite a while that MS set Windows systems up to load
the desktop early - before any work can actually get done - in order to
give users the impression that bootup was faster than is actually the fact.

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