Slow startup

[Elysia]

Windows 7 does wonders for startup, so grab it once the beta's out is another suggestion by me

[brewbuck]

Windows 7 does wonders for startup, so grab it once the beta's out is another suggestion by me

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I saw a presentation about this at WinHEC. They've shortened startup time by starting more than one service in parallel. Seems obvious, but I guess they had to unweave a bunch of dependencies between various basic services in order to make it work.

I'm not really a Microsoft fan, but I think they're doing some good stuff in Win7. I've been running it about a month now and don't have any complaints.

[Elysia]

(Off topic...)

I saw a presentation about this at WinHEC. They've shortened startup time by starting more than one service in parallel. Seems obvious, but I guess they had to unweave a bunch of dependencies between various basic services in order to make it work.

I'm not really a Microsoft fan, but I think they're doing some good stuff in Win7. I've been running it about a month now and don't have any complaints.

They also removed a lot of services from startup. Now they are starting on demand or delayed start, so as to not make the OS sluggish at startup.

> I'm not really a Microsoft fan, but I think they're doing some good stuff in Win7. I've been running it about a month now and don't have any complaints.
That's a very good idea, especially with quad-core CPUs and that out.

Oh yes, they optimized the OS to scale to 256 or so cores.

You're probably running Beta? Is it unstable in any regard?

Beta is not out yet. But it will be soon. These are pre-beta builds.
Yes, they have some bugs and such, but once you learn how to handle them, it is pretty stable.

I know that DX11 is supposed to come out with Win7, is it going to be only for Win7? Like DX10 was for Vista?

I believe it will be available for Vista, as well. The reason DX10 was Vista-only was because it was built to take advantage of the revamped graphics subsystem.

If Windows 7 isn't even in Beta yet, where did you get it?
If you have a link to an official download site, I might give it a try.

The beta is not out yet, but will be in January, word is. The pre-beta could have been acquired at PDC. Otherwise there are only non-legal copies floating around.

[brewbuck]

The beta is not out yet, but will be in January, word is. The pre-beta could have been acquired at PDC. Otherwise there are only non-legal copies floating around.

I don't know if they handed them out at PDC, but they were giving them out at WinHEC. Along with Server 2008 R2.