____/ [H]omer on Saturday 20 October 2007 09:13 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Vista is the most un-user friendly operating system
>
> This is an excellent article, which highlights at least one flaw that is
> endemic across multiple versions of windows: programs and services
> becoming unresponsive during system startup, because they are waiting
> for other services or resources that are not ready.
>
> I've mentioned this before, but the method employed by Windows to
> initialise the system seems haphazard and unreliable. It is certainly no
> SYSV init.
>
> I've found that many of these startup issues can be alleviated using
> scripts to sequence and delay the startup of programs and services into
> a timed progression, thus ensuring that the resources these programs and
> services need are ready and available. Why this is not a standard
> feature of Windows, I have no idea. Perhaps it is /supposed/ to be, but
> if that's the case, then the particular implementation is badly broken.
> It is one of Windows most severe and fundamental flaws.
>
> Then there is this issue of why it often seems to take Windows such an
> inordinate length of time to /allocate/ resources in the first place,
> particularly when it comes to anything to do with networking. My
> conclusion can only be that Microsoft do not know how to implement even
> their own protocols. Rather ironic, don't you think?
Watch the video.
http://www.youtube.com/v/M0sy2i5FMcI
It's ugly. Listen to what he says about the number of processes that Vista runs
before you even get started.
IIRC, 500-700MB are being consumed without you doing or installing anything in
Vista. [me pondering about my main home PC which has 256MB of RAM /]
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~~ Best of wishes
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