Hi There- Sorry that this question was just moved to this forum and not answered right away. It was posted in the wrong forum. Thank!AliciaProgram Manager, Server and Tools Online Engineering Live Services Team

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.? Define "Sluggish".. Please... Broad comments like that lack credibility especially when the Win 7 Beta - for the most of us, anyhow - boots and shuts down FASTER than it did under XP or Vista. So it would be better, perhaps, ifyou started off by giving us some specifics - such as "Win 7 takes 4 minutes, 34 seconds to boot and 6 minutes to shut down..." Maybe include some specifics as to what hardware you're running. What CPU, how much RAM, etc... And no. you won't need a Quad core CPU and 16 GB of RAM to run Win 7 smoothly. I've got it running on an Athlon 64 single core, 3400+ (2.2 GHz) with 1 GB of RAM and it's very smooth.

Was that the answer a dinosaur for a system I'm smarter then my computer

@ Egads: Secret? I dunno about that. I'll admit that IE 8 is slower than molassass in January - but that seems to be true regardless of what you've got under the hood. Other than that, Win 7 boots to the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen in about 40 seconds or less. Shuts down in about 25 seconds from the time I hit the button till it shuts off. The exception to that, of course, is when there areupdates to be installed. I also tend to keep stuff from loading at start up - unless it's mandatory. I don't need 40 or 50 TSR applet things running. It does run rather nicely for a 3 year old box. @ colakid: Dinosaur...? Hardly... I got an Athlon 700+ with 256 MB RAM (circa 2001) in the closet collecting dust. Now that's at least a Woolly Mammoth.

Hi quest4tribal I'm not sure whatposts aboutboot up and shutdown times you are looking at? Why don't you give us a description of your compter and what specific level of performance you are seeing. We may be able to give you some tips. One thing to remember is that Windows 7 is still a new beta product and is in the early stages of being developed. Regards,Thank You for testing Windows 7 Beta Ronnie Vernon MVP

Cloakid -Evidently you aren't smarter than your computer. You misspelled the word THAN. Spellcheck is a lifesaver for some folks! :^D

Boot up speed varies depending upon what software applications have to load during ther initial boot sequence. The same applies to shutdown. If your PC has loaded software at bootup then it also has to shut it down 'before' windows can actually shut down properly. Many user's shave off valuable second (if time bothers you in that way) by simply checking MSConfig and disabling applications that load at startup. The last time I checked startup on my machine (Intel Core2 duo 2.2Ghz with 2GB RAM) the system booted to a workable desktop in 73 seconds. Vista, on the other hand, boots to a workable desktop in around 90 seconds (actually loading the same software at startup as Windows 7 currently does.) I'm not sure about shutdown because I usually just click shutdown, turn the monitor off and walkaway. Of course another aspect is the fact that Windows 7 is in Beta. We had the same thing happen with Vista where people complained about how slow Vista was during bootup and shutdown; it wasn't until Vista went RTM (Release to manufacturer) that the startup/shutdown scenarios started to improve. As a typical example with Vista, on a brand new machine with Vista just installed and absolutely nothing else on the system a computer (the one mentioned above) which I had recently purchased booted from cold in 35 seconds. When I started installing all the software I use, Microsoft Office 2007, Adobe Photoshop, Sophos Anti Virus and a host of other applications this initial 35 seconds soon shot up to 90 seconds. This example gives you an idea of how easy it is, simply by installing software, to increase both startup and shutdown times. John Barnett - Windows XP Associate Expert; Windows Desktop Experience. - Web: http://www.winuser.co.uk; Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org; Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org