Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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That's the boot up time for Windows 2000 Pro? 37 seconds!?! Why don't modern OSes boot that quickly any more?And programs! He clicked the game icon, was at the menu 35 seconds later, messed around in the menu a bit, and then loaded into a level in 26 seconds. Opening any M$ Office program takes longer than all of that combined!
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@djls45 I love the wind.
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@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
That's the boot up time for Windows 2000 Pro? 37 seconds!?! Why don't modern OSes boot that quickly any more?
They do?
@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
And programs! He clicked the game icon, was at the menu 35 seconds later, messed around in the menu a bit, and then loaded into a level in 26 seconds. Opening any M$ Office program takes longer than all of that combined!
You have a slow-ass computer. I just timed MS Word: 4 seconds to blinking cursor.
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@boomzilla He tested it on an LCD monitor first, but when he turned the machine on, it flew to the other side of the room.
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@blakeyrat said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
That's the boot up time for Windows 2000 Pro? 37 seconds!?! Why don't modern OSes boot that quickly any more?
They do?
From sleep or maybe hibernate. A cold boot for Windows 7 Enterprise took over five minutes to get to the account login screen, I entered my password, and then it took another 2 minutes to get to the desktop. Maybe my work laptop has a bunch of boot-time and startup stuff slipped in, but my personal Win7Pro laptop takes nearly as long.
@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
And programs! He clicked the game icon, was at the menu 35 seconds later, messed around in the menu a bit, and then loaded into a level in 26 seconds. Opening any M$ Office program takes longer than all of that combined!
You have a slow-ass computer. I just timed MS Word: 4 seconds to blinking cursor.
Before or after you've already opened it and loaded everything into RAM? First-time opening after a cold boot is sssslllllllllllllloooooowwwwwwww.
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@djls45 "Andy giveth, and Bill taketh away." Andy Grove is dead now, and Bill Gates has been gone from Microsoft for years and years, but the principle remains as true today as it ever was.
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@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
Before or after you've already opened it and loaded everything into RAM? First-time opening after a cold boot is sssslllllllllllllloooooowwwwwwww.
That was the first time. The second was about 1.5s.
You seriously have a broken computer.
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@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
Why don't modern OSes boot that quickly any more?
I'm assuming you're talking about on hard drives? My system boots in like 10 seconds from SSD with fast boot disabled both in the OS and in the UEFI BIOS. I can't speak for games though as there have been literally zero modern hardware-demanding games that interest me, aside from perhaps QUBE 2 which also loads in 5 seconds but I don't know how demanding it really is at max settings.
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@blakeyrat said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
You seriously have a broken computer.
Maybe so. What do you think?
This is a Lenovo T450.
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@djls45 I have a Lenovo T440 in which I replaced the hard disk with an SSD; a restart (so no hibernate or fast boot tricks going on) of my weeks-old Windows 10 install took 35s, including logging in and opening my browser again. So you really want to check your storage, startup stuff, etc.
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@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
Maybe so. What do you think?
I think you have a broken computer. Not sure why you think that screenshot would change my opinion.
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@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
A cold boot for Windows 7 Enterprise took over five minutes to get to the account login screen, I entered my password, and then it took another 2 minutes to get to the desktop.
Holy shit, my 10-year-old IBM T42 units with single-core processors on spinning rust don't even take that long!
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@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
A cold boot for Windows 7 Enterprise took over five minutes to get to the account login screen, I entered my password, and then it took another 2 minutes to get to the desktop. Maybe my work laptop has a bunch of boot-time and startup stuff slipped in, but my personal Win7Pro laptop takes nearly as long.
Of course, I haven't had a Windows machine at work in a long long time, but they often (as I've observed cow-orkers complaining) take forever to be useful between the encryption and security/anti-virus stuff. Obviously, SSD vs spinning disk is going to make a huge difference too.
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@boomzilla said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
encryption and security/anti-virus
That may be it. Our IT has Symantec and BitLocker on it, and I can't update the startup items without it resetting into diagnostic safe mode for me to enter the BitLocker key.
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@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
37 seconds!?! Why don't modern OSes boot that quickly any more?
My Chromebook can do a cold boot in like 5 or 6 seconds.
@djls45 said in Slower Computers --> Faster Programs? [Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™]:
And programs! He clicked the game icon, was at the menu 35 seconds later, messed around in the menu a bit, and then loaded into a level in 26 seconds.
Seems rather slow.
