In a message on Wednesday 05-22-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GE Ed,

 EV> DSL Modem to finish their handshaking and then I press the power

 EV> I wait this long for the Router/DSL Modem before turning on the
 EV> computer because in the past if I hadn't waited - when the Limited

 HG> It was a bit difficult to give you a structured reply to the above, so
 HG> I'll just give you the start-up timings for the Win10 machine:

EV> O.K.

 HG> First I switch on the "router" or modem, then the screen
and finally
 HG> the computer. All as fast as my finger moves from one to another
 HG> switch.

 HG> I have the router set to automatically connect.

EV> My DSL Modem connects to my service.

So does my router.

 HG> After abt 3 seconds the machine asks for the HD password + enter.
 HG> After 7 - 8 seconds the first Windows screen appears, which is
 HG> confirmed with enter...

EV> That is faster than any Windows computer I have used.

 HG> Now comes the screen asking for the Windows pwrd or PIN code. After
 HG> entering the needed PIN-code it takes another 7 - 8 seconds for the
 HG> main screen with all the icons to appear.

 HG> That's it.

EV> For all I know the WIN TEN Telemetry situation may be affecting this
EV> XP machine without me knowing of it.
EV> MS does what they want to do with their Code, I just use it.

What Win10 Telemetry situation?? Never heard of such a thing.

EV> I don't like being on the "Bleeding Edge" as You know with my older
EV> messages about my experiences with Win3.1 in 1994 , Win95 in 1998 ,
EV> Win98SE around 2000 , WinXP in 2006 and WinVista  .

Well, after all Win3.1 wasn't too bad after all, especially when
upgraded to WFWG 3.11. I skipped the other ones until XP (pro), and then
again skipped all versions until Win10.

 HG> NOTE: I have a HD/BIOS password set on all my machines. Nobody carring
 HG> away any of my machines will have any use of what's in them, since the
 HG> pwrd protects both the HD and BIOS.

EV> ...Until someone takes the Hard Drive out of the case..... ?

Doesn't help, since the password is written both to a sector on the HD,
as well as in the BIOS.


GN es 73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger


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