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Five secrets to faster Vista starts
Friday, December 21st, 2007
The wise old men of mainstream tech journalism are once again repeating the conventional wisdom that Vista is slow to start up and slow to shut down. They’re wrong. I proved this to my satisfaction last spring (see also the first and second parts in the series) with tests on three separate systems, and I’ve just repeated the tests on a new crop of Vista PCs to verify that there’s no new problem.
The results are the same or better, perhaps reflecting incremental improvements from the many reliability and performance updates since then. In this post, I’ll explain why they’re wrong and show you how you can fix the problem if you encounter a slow startup. The latest to repeat this accusation is the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, who slipped this doozy in his review of Leopard: » Five secrets to faster Vista starts | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com
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