05-18-17 09:41 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Patience
Howdy! Holger,

 HG> {at}MSGID: 
 HG> In a message on Thursday 05-08-17 Ed Vance said to All:

 HG> Hi Ed,

 HG> Excuse me for the delay of this reply, but it's intentional.

You have to excuse Me also because I got Your message yesterday but just
now answering it.

 HG> I wanted to be sure I gave you the correct timing of the Win10pro
 HG> system start-up that I use.

 EV> Yesterday when I started up this XP pc, after I Logged On to the
 EV> limited account I watched a blue screen saying "loading your
 EV> settings" for ten or twelve minutes.

Before I saw that screen I:

 EV> After turning on the Router I will wait ten minutes for it and the
 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
 EV> Account desktop shows up, the LAN icon in the Tray will show "not
 EV> connected".

 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:

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.

My DSL Modem connects to my service.

 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...

That is faster than any Windows computer I have used.
The Commodore 64 comes up in half a second.   

 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> Patience...........

 HG> Yeah, as I said previously, you missed the train, while Win10 was a
 HG> free upgrade to machines with Win7 or later. I couldn't resist the fre
 HG> offer, so I bought a second hand Win7 machine and got it upgraded to
 HG> Win10.

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

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

 HG> That was after my first experience of Win10pro in the laptop I received
 HG> for XMAS from my GS.

 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.

I remember Jean Parrot mentioning setting a HD BIOS password on Notebook pcs.
I might have done that to the Vista notebook, I can't remember now.
It's a good idea though.

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


... An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
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