@JourneymanGeek 12.5 seconds total in Safari from Germany. The first few requests had 3 seconds latency, and the longest download times were JS und CSS files. Since it's 4xx kb total, something's wrong. Second request (cached) 4.7 seconds, practically everything of which is response latency.
I guess he wanted to be able to tag individual image in the windows explorer easily and able to search easily.. I don't honestly think this is available in windows yet
Call it 5 minutes to search for the solution, minute or two to implement, then another minute to restart/test. Call it 10 minutes roughly. And this saves 200 micro (I'm assuming you did actually mean microseconds, rather than milliseconds) so that's 0.0002 seconds per boot saved. You would need to reboot 3,000,000 times (600 seconds divided by 0.0002), even if you meant milliseconds that still 3,000 reboots to see a benefit....
Which is why Soluto is the best option tbh, you can kill the main timewasters. The things that give little or no benefit require too much time to find/kill in the first place.
Things like the icon cache are there to make the overall experience faster and deleting/minimising it may make your boot faster but slow down everything else by an order of magnitude...
The cache is there so that the icons can all be loaded in one continuous batch (which costs less in terms of drive accesses) rather than lots of small individual seeks to files which could be all over the drive
Not as much of a difference I'll admit, but it is still a difference, an SSD is still not a RAM disk.
for each icon the system has to perform a lot more operations, "oh, I need an icon for this, where is it on disk, load file, show icon" rather than "is the icon in memory cache, yes, show icon"
I have got my audio card and alsamixer working on my Gentoo installation, as I'm too bored to visit that program all the time I need to make a subtle audio adjustment I'm looking forward to doing this with a volume control on my Xfce panel and/or the hardware audio keys just like I'm used to...
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I've got an old Dell (can't remember the number right now) and we want to use it in the living room attached to the TV so we can browse the web and use the BBC iPlayer etc. It's currently running Windows XP but that takes a while to boot (even if we reinstalled to clear out all the other applications). What would people recommend for a quick boot OS?
@ChrisF: One option is to do Windows On/Off Transition Performance Analysis like I have been doing earlier today, another option is to install a Linux distribution that doesn't come with a lot of extras. Perhaps there are premade solutions, try asking on Super User as I feel it is a niche software question? :)
@ChrisF: Also, this article seems to feature some fast booting Linux distributions, although I doubt if they support the external screen / internet / sound combination well enough...
@TomWijsman Interesting - I asked here as I thought it would get closed straight away on SU.
@TomWijsman The external screen isn't an issue. The TV takes RGB input (we've got it working with XP) so it's just the normal screen as far as the computer is concerned.
Depends on the question, if it's easy to find on Google then probably. But if it's a hard thing to figure out for you then it's an actual problem that you have and then looking for advice / suggestions from niche experts should be perfectly fine...
I've only just started looking really. The initial plan was to use Chromium but we haven't succeeded in creating a bootable USB image yet and I beginning to think it won't work on the Dell anyway. So the fall back is Linux and the fall back for the fall back is to reinstall XP ;)
Funnily enough we'll also need to get a decent wireless keyboard with trackpad...
I have just dedicated a computer to my living room TV, to watch Hulu, movies, etc. You can think of it as a Media Center TV but I hardly use Media Center itself.
What features would distinguish a good wireless, integrated keyboard / mouse combo for this environment? Range? Wireless technology? ...
Is there a workaround to make windows7 apply tags to PNG files like JPG?
maybe some registry hack?
This is typical Microsoft stuff I'd say.
List of the computer POST / beep codes depending on the motherboard manufacturer is here and here.
