I dont think so. I mean, paint hasnt changed much. There is onky essentially 5 versions of it, the windows 3.x one, the win95 one, the NT sp3+ one, the vista one, and the win7 one. only two versions actually changed it in a visible way (other versions just included more format support and support for transparency)
And i mean, there isnt much more wordpad needs - its a general text editor, not a programmers one.
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On a notebook that you take from class to class, Windows Vista is simply unacceptable since it takes at least five minutes to boot up and just about the same to shut down. I hope Windows 7 offers some drastic improvement. I could care less for silly stuff like Paint, Wordpad, Mediaplayer or Games. Those things are easy to get for free and of better quality from a number of good folks.
On a notebook that you take from class to class, Windows Vista is simply unacceptable since it takes at least five minutes to boot up and just about the same to shut down. I hope Windows 7 offers some drastic improvement.
Its SUPPOSED to be slow to boot and shut down, it caches your most recently used programs into memory so that its faster when you actually do things on it. Thats why the default option on notebooks under vista is to sleep. if you want to disable this caching, i believe the service is called Superfetch.
Its SUPPOSED to be slow to boot and shut down, it caches your most recently used programs into memory so that its faster when you actually do things on it. Thats why the default option on notebooks under vista is to sleep. if you want to disable this caching, i believe the service is called Superfetch.
No. That's just their excuse for why it is. The default option is sleep in Vista because they needed a quick way to try and hide how abysmally slow it was. And as for the program caching, that would be swell if it actually worked. A 2-3GB Windows 7, Linux or XP system runs faster than an equivalent Windows Vista one.
And really, why would anybody want to use a computer that's supposed to be slow to boot up and shut down?
Because then its faster to actually use once it is started.
i know you sure arent talking about Vista. that OS is a complete dog. i can't say one single good thing about it. i'd rather have XP any day, and i'll choose linux whenever possible just for general principles.
but i do need to give Win 7 a spin. i mean, it can't possibly be any worse
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