Ridiculous periods to boot up

[beardoc]

It seems my primary laptop is taking ridiculous amounts of time to boot up. Almost 20 minutes until everything is fully loaded. Interestingly, it seems to take 5 minutes alone to boot through the BIOS (which the original BIOS loadup screen where it says "press F10 to enter setup". Previously it would take about 15 minutes to load everything, but

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[ricksf]

Interesting. My desktop, of somewhat older vintage, is suffering a similar issue. I've marked it down as an overburdened registry from changes and updates over the years. But I'm hardly a systems expert.

I'm similarly considering simply retiring the machine for something new. But then I won't buy a Vista machine. So the conundrum continues...

Of course there's always a Mac...

[urbear]

If you can wait a couple of months you'll be able to buy a new machine with Windows 7. I've been using a pre-release version for months, and it's a honking huge improvement over Vista for many reasons. I'd say that it's actually somewhat competitive with Mac OS X, believe it or not.

If you can't wait that long, you might want to buy a Vista machine now. Most manufacturers offer a free upgrade to Windows 7. You'd just have to grit your teeth and deal with Vista until the end of October.

And yes, there's always a Mac... never a bad choice.

[urbear]

I've decided that I prefer it to XP.

Even better, for the first time in their history, Microsoft has released an OS that actually requires fewer resources than its predecessor. It runs nicely on everything from a netbook on up.

[beardoc]

I'll probably do that, and my new Desktop will run Windows 7.