From: "Robert Comer" 

>I never tried ME.

Some people would think you were lucky. 

I still like it for games.

- Bob Comer 


"Ellen K."  wrote
in message news:qt1bt0pg2orafi2v0tajdhft9pejandvmd{at}4ax.com...
>I never tried ME.
>
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:17:28 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote in message
> :
>
>>> It's still a lot faster than its predecessors, W9x takes forever.
>>
>>Ironically, WinME is still has the fastest boot times, IME, by quite a
>>good
>>margin.
>>
>>- Bob Comer 
>>
>>
>>"Ellen K."
 wrote in message
>>news:0mo6t0p2mtlp9ujcc2bhvurlpb8ftjchea{at}4ax.com...
>>> It's still a lot faster than its predecessors, W9x takes forever.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:39:32 -0500, Mike '/m'
 wrote in
>>> message :
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Well if you're type A+, then you definitely don't want to
be waiting for
>>>>W2K
>>>>to boot up.  In addition to the shutdown slowdowns,  The security
>>>>patches
>>>>have
>>>>also installed a "feature" that gives me an
hourglass for about 30-60
>>>>seconds
>>>>before I can Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in.  As a result, I now
tend to turn on
>>>>the
>>>>PC as I walk by in the morning to make coffee, and turn it
off when I go
>>>>to
>>>>bed.
>>>>
>>>> /m
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:28:20 -0800, Ellen K.
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I never shut down my home ones either.   Realize I am
Type A+, do not
>>>>>want to wait for machine to boot when I sit down at it.
>>>>>
>>>>>Wonder how much electricity a computer uses actually...
 do you know?
>>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:55:24 -0500, Mike '/m'
 wrote
>>>>>in
>>>>>message :
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This is the desktop in my dining room.  No sense
leaving it on
>>>>>>overnight,
>>>>>>wasting electricity.  Also, I had noticed more
crashes when I didn't
>>>>>>reboot
>>>>>>every couple of days.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /m
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 01:21:48 -0800, Ellen K.
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I never shut any of my machines down.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:43:52 -0500, Mike '/m'
 wrote
>>>>>>>in
>>>>>>>message
:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>At first I thought it was just me.  At
first I thought there was
>>>>>>>>something in
>>>>>>>>my environment that was causing Windows to
take so long to shut
>>>>>>>>down.
>>>>>>>>Then I
>>>>>>>>noticed a couple of things.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>The first was that a new install of Windows
2000 shut down quickly.
>>>>>>>>However,
>>>>>>>>once I visited the Windows Update site and
started to bring W2K up
>>>>>>>>to
>>>>>>>>date
>>>>>>>>with all the critical fixes, the shutdown
delay appeared.  Somewhere
>>>>>>>>during
>>>>>>>>the multiple download, install and reboot
process, I noticed that
>>>>>>>>the
>>>>>>>>shutdowns were taking longer and longer.  
It might have been the
>>>>>>>>download of
>>>>>>>>27 critical patches that was the cause.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>At that point I was still thinking it was
something I was doing.
>>>>>>>>Then
>>>>>>>>I got a
>>>>>>>>new notebook with W2K on it.  I wanted to
test the system recovery,
>>>>>>>>so
>>>>>>>>I did
>>>>>>>>the recovery option that does a clean
install of W2K.  The initial
>>>>>>>>install
>>>>>>>>shut down quickly.  However, after I
visited Windows Update and
>>>>>>>>downloaded the
>>>>>>>>critical patches, the shutdown slowness
appeared, even on that new
>>>>>>>>notebook.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>So now I'm thinking that it is me or my
home network.  Then I see a
>>>>>>>>cartoon in
>>>>>>>>the November 2004 issue of Optimize, a
trade rag for CIO's published
>>>>>>>>by CMP
>>>>>>>>Media.  On page 17 the cartoon shows an
office worker who has fallen
>>>>>>>>asleep at
>>>>>>>>his desk, the clock on the wall says 8:00. 
It is nighttime because
>>>>>>>>you can
>>>>>>>>see the window lights of other office
buildings in the background.
>>>>>>>>There is a
>>>>>>>>cleaning lady looking at the office worker
in a darkened office.
>>>>>>>>His
>>>>>>>>face is
>>>>>>>>lit up by the glow of the PC's monitor.  On
the screen, the monitor
>>>>>>>>says,
>>>>>>>>"Please Wait While Windows Shuts Down".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Once I saw that, I thought, it's not
something I'm doing.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>So now that begs the question, what in the
world is causing Windows
>>>>>>>>to
>>>>>>>>take
>>>>>>>>nearly two minutes from the time I tell it
to shutdown until the
>>>>>>>>time
>>>>>>>>it
>>>>>>>>actually shuts down?  It used to take a few seconds.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Has anyone else seen this problem?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /m
>>>>>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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