Windows 8 startup will be faster

[misi]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-2...t=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&tag=nl.e703

Microsoft, addressing a painful part of using the company's operating system, says Windows 8 starts up 30 percent to 70 percent faster than the same machines runningWindows 7.
That's music to my ears.
Alas, I've heard Microsoft say it's speeding up Windows startup so many times over the years that I'm skeptical it'll ever really happen, especially given that part of the responsibility lies with third-party software out of Microsoft's direct control. This time, though, Microsoft is tackling the problem with a more dramatic approach that preserves some of the computer's state from before the restart.

Specifically, Windows 8 uses a hybrid technique intermediate between a full-on restart and the low-power hibernation state. In addition, Microsoft is speeding how fast a system will come out of hibernation by spreading the work across multiple processor cores.
"As in Windows 7, we close the user sessions, but instead of closing the kernel session, we hibernate it," Gabe Aul, a Windows program management director, said in a blog post yesterday. "It's faster because resuming the hibernated system session is comparatively less work than doing a full system initialization, but it's also faster because we added a new multi-phase resume capability, which is able to use all of the cores in a multi-core system in parallel."

That is a promising news.

 

[okeedokee]

I'm skeptical too!
Will be interesting to see.

 

[foxidrive]

When you need to reboot for real it will probably be as slow as a wet week, as usual.


Hibernation could be fine for a long while but a real reboot will always be needed at certain times, like when changing hardware, and that's often when more reboots are needed.

 

[biggles]

My solution is to simply 'throw more hardware at it"

I'm quite happy with the cold boot times of Windows 7 on my notebook. Mind you, I was coming off a very low base, my old Celeron...

I wonder how they are going to preserve the kernel state? If its non volatile RAM that would be OK, otherwise is it going to be like my iPhone in that unless you go out of your way to turn it right off, which requires you to unlock the sim card when you turn it back on, its never really off and so does use some battery power.. hmmm

 

[foxidrive]

They save a state to the hard drive b. Not as much as in earlier versions so the hiberfil is not as large to load.

I scored me a Toshiba Satellite M100 notebook on freecycle - will have to see what specs it has. About to go and pick it up....

 

[biggles]

They save a state to the hard drive b. Not as much as in earlier versions so the hiberfil is not as large to load.

I scored me a Toshiba Satellite M100 notebook on freecycle - will have to see what specs it has. About to go and pick it up....

mmm sweet find, foxi. Enjoy