Re: OT: Quick substitute for re-booting

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

J R FOX wrote:
--- Harry Binswanger  wrote:
For me XP takes about 2 minutes. I've seen systems
(from people who don't
know much about computers) that take 5 minutes.
There seems to be a real range here, depending on the
hardware and other factors not known to me. An IBM
T-43 that I have temporary access to at this location
has a relatively fresh install of XP Pro on it, and
seems to come up from OFF in just under 30 seconds.
That's about the best I've seen for W2K or XP.

Hmm, Given that it's a laptop, maybe it's not really
off, but hibernating? Or whatever it's called (my
reference is over in the office, but I was reading
about it recently): the scenario where everything is
saved to memory, and the drives and screen power down,
but RAM remains live and everything else comes up when
you hit the on button.
Laptops are somehow or other souped up though. I've got
a Tpad--really, really ancient--that's running 98SE in
74 Mb of RAM, on a 166 MHz CPU. I wouldn't even try SE
on a desktop of that caliber.
The 1.1 MHz desktop that was recently upgraded to W2K
takes 5 minutes to boot. Clean install, very little
software (it's basically dedicated to printing the
mailing labels and going on the Net to the USPS site to
file complaints of nondelivery). BUT it has only 256 Mb
or RAM, of which 16 are being used by the onboard VGA.
Even more telling, I think, is the hard drive, which
was a secondhand pull and I suspect is ATA 66 or
something like that. (We're planning to get a new box.)

And Linux (Xandros, which I conclude is a piece of
bloatware) takes LONGER to boot on this PC (AMD Sempron
2800 with 512 Mb) than 98Se does. Go figure.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx