WIN 10 again!

Thats a bit more like it.

Shows how much crud windoze loads in.

What does 'Boot Up' mean, is this how long you kick a Windows machine in desperation. I don't close my MAC Book Air down, just shut the lid. On re-opening, enter password and go. It takes longer to type the password for the window to open - Ah! the joy of ditching Windows.
(Name withheld)

I’m not surprised, it came out in 2004! Have you thought of getting a new one, 5mp isn’t very much these days, even mobile phones are higher than that.

I do the same on my Windows laptop. I've seen my daughter on the edge of rage trying to do things on her mac that take seconds on a PC.

That said, convergent evolution of computers is so strong now that most of the advantages one group of users claims over another are illusory and most things are easy to do on any computer if you know what to do!

Neil

Indeed. By ditching Windows, you no longer know what Windows does these days but clearly OS endows users with the illusion of psychic powers(??). Like Neil I just close the lid. When I open it again it's there as before. Even booting up these days is damned quick.

Murray

Edited By Muzzer on 10/04/2018 19:19:38

This sounds like the trouble I had when I lost all digital stored ME & MEW but that was months ago and the removal of WiFi card fixed it as well as installing new STD.

I am not always up to date with the lingo, but did you mean SSD?

I switch the computer on, take the dog for a walk ,and the thing works. Win 8 in a black box.

Ha Ha, nice one!

that was a BIG ooopps yes SSD is hat was meant.

Really sad I am. Whilst having a break from domestic goddess duties I booted and timed Ubuntu and Windows, which I have dual-boot on the same machine.

• Linux to working GUI - 20 seconds
• Windows to working GUI - 31 seconds

What Windows did next is more annoying, or perhaps Siri was smart enough to anticipate my desire to see an embarrassment! Windows took 12 minutes to download several updates (at 1Mb/s) and then slowly started applying them. When I came back 46 minutes later, it was still chugging away. Shortly after it stopped and I was offered the Retry Button. That failed too. Then I had to force a shutdown over a running app, oh dear.

Nothing broke and I expect the update will sort itself out later but still.

Within reason I don't really care how long it takes my OS to boot. Me doing all these measurements with a stopwatch is coincidental...

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 12/04/2018 19:06:38

It took some of us a long time to realise that, unlike many hobby machine tools, the PC is designed with a 100% duty cycle, i.e. they are meant to be permanently powered up. Mine wakes from sleep mode every night around 4am and updates some of its parts. The only way to discover this is by viewing the system log since it does not list these mini-updates.

If it is powered off at night these updates take place after you switch on . . . which may be fine if you are on "superfast" broadband, but can involve a very long tea-break if you are on a slow rural 'phone line as they hog ALL the bandwidth

Many of the bigger updates involve a long-winded reboot but if you have Win10 Pro you are allowed some leeway to choose when to do this.

Mike.

All computers are a pain, but sadly they are no longer optional unless you are a hermit who does not need to contact anyone in the outside world for business or social purposes . . .

Edited By Farmboy on 12/04/2018 23:00:09