RE: Study: Windows 7 can boot more slowly than Vista

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Alan Burns 8th Oct 2009

That's not a fair comparison anyway. Windows 7 is
designed to stagger the boot process more fully than
windows Vista, just because the system takes longer to
become fully idle doesn't mean that overall, the cpu
and hard disk usage isn't low enough to launch
applications far faster.

A more suitable test would be to set *insert browser
of choice* to run at startup, and then restart the
computer. I'm betting that Windows 7 would be
consistently faster, since services that may be needed
are started far later than the ones that ARE needed
for apps to launch, especially software as simple as a
web browser. That's the whole point, and one which
Iolo clearly missed.