I remember many years ago, sitting in a IBM corporate office for training on OS/2. During the training, they suggested that their operating system was designed to boot up slowly. It gave you enough time to hit the power button on the PC, login, and go get a cup of coffee and chat with your fellow employees.
Thankfully, OS/2 never really got off the ground.
But, it’s close to 12 years after that training class, and I’m still concerned that the modern-day OS’s are taking too long to boot.
I realize that we all load things at startup that we need and think think we need, like AV, Skype, Adobe’s crappy products, Desktop Searches, ActiveSync, Weather applications, etc., but each new thing we add increases the boot-up time for our PCs. This can be frustrating.
My Windows Mobile phone takes less than 2 seconds to turn on and start checking my email. My Windows TabletPC (running Windows XP SP2) takes close to 20 minutes to turn on, log in, open MS Outlook, and start checking email.
Have we gone back to the days of the IBM OS/2 world? If so, why are we satisfied with that?
What is YOUR boot-up time? How are you minimizing the amount of wasted time at the beginning of the day?