From: "Robert Comer" 

> 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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