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quest4tribal said: i've watched some posts on this windows 7 in regards to boot up times and shut down times. i would like to know why it still takes forever to shut down the pc and start up the pc, anyone have any answers on why this wouldn't happen when that's what they advertise, oh ya and i find it real sluggish... is this going to be another operating systeme that is memory hungry and speed hungry, will they have to start producing 4 core quad processors and 16gb of ram to run this smoothly.? Hello,Let me address your concerns, individually:1. General resource-usage:- I have a copy of Vista that I tried to install on the computer I am running now, and the processor load was constantly at 35% or more, and that is when I was not running any programs at all. This is not a dual-core processor, 512MB graphics card, and super-cooling computer, nor is it brand new. It is more like 4-6 years old. It is a Dell desktop, and has 2GB of RAM, and a graphics card with 128MB. It is a P4HT processor, and Vista could barely even handle it, when I had 1.25 GB of RAM at the time. So, in comparison, I installed Windows Seven with a full 2GB of RAM, and it is the fastest OS I have ever used. For me, in my tests, I have found it to par Windows XP in resources, if you take into consideration Aero and Sidebar. Still, in comparison, it is now running several programs, has slideshow background, and I am hovering ~10-20%, and the physical memory meter shows only 40% being used. I can't compare that last number with what amount of memory was being used in Vista, because I didn't keep it on long enough to care to find out, ;).. I was wanting a fast and stable OS, and Vista so far was not fast enough for me. So, if you look at those numbers, the specs of my computer, I'd say there is no evidence of it being a resource hog, and they have really improved a lot on the memory and processor footprint.2. Startup and shutdown timesI have noticed that it is about the same time as XP is when you have installed your typical programs, but not nearly as slow as Vista was. Also, there has been a lot of mixed youtubes and reviews about using different means to getting Windows Seven to start-up faster. I noticed that Hibernation is extremely fast. and so is coming back from Sleep. So, I have seen tremendous improvements in those areas, even when comparing it to XP. Also, you have to understand that you stilll are dealing with hardware. The actual startup time is not from the time you push the power button, till it loads; the start-up time is when the BIOS is finished, and the OS actually starts to load. Also you have to take into consideration the harddrive you have, how fast your processor and ram speed are, and how you last shut-down the computer. Hopefully after reveiwing these things, you'll start to see that it is booting faster?Regarding your specific problem with slow start-up and shutdown, please list your installed programs, your brand and computer specs, and if you wouldn't mind, please time exactly how long it takes you to get into Windows 7, as soon as you see the Windows 7 loading screen with the new animation, until you see everything loaded. I'll see what I can find out, how long mine takes, and maybe we can compare.Andrew,

I would have liked to have seen Windows 7 as an option in Virtual Pc instead of using windows vista.In virtualbox there is such a feature and i found it much easier to mount the iso and less problems once it was up and running.robin