My copies of XP and Vista were fairly peppy booters when first installed, but adding in assorted services (databases, Web server, VNC) slowed things down, plus I had to install antivirus software, which makes things even slower.
Of more concern to me is shutdown time, as in "eternity", and when I have to just hold the button button to force a machine off. Each time there is a real risk of corrupted drives (I'm recovering data right now from a drive corrupted because something hung Vista and I had to power off the box).
Each time it refuses to cleanly shutdown there is nothing displayed to tell me why.
Is there even an option to have windows show what it's doing when it shuts down instead of the often untruthful 'Windows is shutting down' message?
Of more concern to me is shutdown time, as in "eternity", and when I have to just hold the button button to force a machine off. Each time there is a real risk of corrupted drives (I'm recovering data right now from a drive corrupted because something hung Vista and I had to power off the box).
Each time it refuses to cleanly shutdown there is nothing displayed to tell me why.
Is there even an option to have windows show what it's doing when it shuts down instead of the often untruthful 'Windows is shutting down' message?