tkcas01 wrote:
From OP....
Thanks again for some of the more recent responses. My Mom's new computer with 8.1 installed arrived today, so we will just config it to make it look as familiar to her Win7 experience as possible.
I hadn't heard it was faster to boot. That's nice. Sometimes with Win7 I wonder what in the HECK it is doing!
It was probably loading a lot of programs and services. Any computer can be made to boot faster. It all depends on the programs and services the you have set to run at boot.
I got my new Win7 x64 with the i7 processor and 16 GB of RAM. Boots in 35 seconds running everything I want. One happy camper here.:)
If you really want to speed up a computer install a Solid State Drive. I hear they boot in about 10 to 15 seconds or less. Then again how fast do you need a computer to boot? The more you spend and tweak the faster the boot.
