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Orjan Westin wrote: used to have a boot time less than 5 seconds on my 64... kB Commodore 64.
But then, loading anything after that still took longer than it takes today, say, to install the most bloated OS available.
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Just a few weeks ago, I upgraded a 6 yo tower by replacing the standard HDD with a 480GB SSD...finally a capacity I could live with at a reasonable price. I reloaded 7 from DVD, activated, then immediately upgraded to 10. What a huge difference one component will make! My power on to login screen is less than 15 seconds, and ready to use in less than 30. It has totally disrupted my coffee routine!
The SSD is the only new item in the rig. The rest:
AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.00 GHz
4GB DDR3
Win 10 Pro (32 bit)
One thing I found out was that having a 6 yo rig meant that I had 6 years of dust on the cooling fins. I realized this after Minecraft caused the system to shutdown after about 20 minutes or so. After it did this twice, I suspected overheating and download free tool and discovered that my idle temps were 195F and Minecraft was pushing them to over 250F! A thorough dusting and it now idles at around 140F...I haven't had time for games lately so I don't know if this will solve my overheating issues, but it's a pretty safe bet. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: Win 10 Pro (32 bit)
Oh wow! Change to 64! It will make a huge difference!
(Off course it means a hardware change! )
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
modified 18-Jan-16 15:28pm.
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I would've gone 64 bit, but didn't feel like getting adding RAM to a 6 yo system.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I'm afraid going to 64 bit means a new computer, not just adding memory 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Not so. Six years ago when I built it, I could have gone either way. I chose 32 bit since it more closely resembled my customer base at the time.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Cornelius Henning wrote: speed up my boot time
SSD
reorder boot sequence to boot from SSD first
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
modified 18-Jan-16 13:31pm.
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If the effort expended in the basically pointless pursuit of quicker booting had been devoted to any of the many genuine problems the world currently faces we might well be living in the best of times. Just saying!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: best of times
and the worst of times. 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Since I have been in the USA I have written to the President countless number of times, telling him exactly how to fix all the problems afflicting this planet - But will he listen? Noooo! He knows better! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Hahaha I laugh, I scoff, I cry with envy. My office machine takes approx 4 minutes to go from power on to completed logon. I say approx because I go make a coffee and hope it is finished when I return.
I gave up years ago trying to get any sort of reasonable performance from my office equipment. IT/Security load so much crapware it is a fight I can never win.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Is a fat wife your butter half?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or is my wife's butt(er) fat?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Say that to her and you'll be toast.
/ravi
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He'll have to bagel for forgiveness.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Sounds like she's closer to being your one-and-a-half.
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Then she must be the bacon of your life!
Life is too shor
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Don't tell her, or you'll be in a jam.
Hogan
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Just mention this to her, and watch her become a bitter butter.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'm sorry gentlemen,
Maybe it was the huge nested if-statements I found a while back (6 if-else's all having at least 6 nested if-else's)...
Maybe it was the 700 line function I had to deal with...
Maybe it was the huge pieces of duplicated code that only differ by input type (that just so happen to have some of the same properties).
Maybe it was the function that's called "Validate", but also fetches data from the database, creates some objects and returns those objects for further processing...
Maybe it was just that my assignment is "copy all of those things because we don't want to reuse that code in a project that does exactly the same"...
Maybe it was all these things, gentlemen.
But the fact remains that today, I, Sander Rossel, am not feeling so happy 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I, Sander Rossel, am not feeling so happy
If you are one-hundred-per-cent unhappy, we are both depressed; if you are one-hundred-per-cent happy, we are both delirious. Other percentages: we should negotiate.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Is that a movie/book quote?
Anyway, let the negotiations begin! I'll start with a 50/50 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Is that a movie/book quote?
I am an original in a world of copies 
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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I am an original in a world of copies
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Do you have access to our codebase? 
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