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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by convery on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:38AM (#26678482)
I have used Win10 as well, about the same boot time.
Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by alisonatwork on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:18AM (#26678599)
I have to concur with the other commenters, it sounds like your system might have some kind of strange configuration. I haven't had a computer that took longer than around 10 seconds to boot since Windows 7. SSDs made a massive difference. Then Windows 8 introduced hybrid boot for certain configurations, and Windows 10 made it pretty much standard. My Android phone (Pixel) takes longer to boot than my Windows computer (Surface).
Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by nikau on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:44AM (#26678493)
Not sure what you are doing, my win 10 box boots to desktop in around 10 seconds if that
Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by omegabravo on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:55AM (#26678529)
My personal Window 10 box boots within 10 seconds. My corporate laptop takes an eternity despite being more powerful.

I suspect configuration (software and hardware) has a massive impact which is being glossed over.

Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by nikau on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:58AM (#26678537)
Well yes, corporate machines are a different issue.

I have a corporate mac that's sluggish due to mcafee chewing 100% CPU for 5 minute intervals, anything with "enterprise" management software on it is going to suck regardless of OS.

Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by hyperman1 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:00AM (#26679405)
Just wait until you see windows 10 on a 2GB machine with mcafee, and then corona forces ms teams on it. Boot takes 15 minutes to usable. Usable means msword produces a character on the screen in less than 10 seconds after you type it.

IT closed the users ticket without action: As long as it boots in 15 minutes or less, there is no performance problem.

Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by lanstin on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:10PM (#26683794)
Yeah I have a Mac Book with 32G iof RAM and 8/16 cores and always five or so of the top 7 processes for CPU are spy ware. Unless I do a massive multi account terraform apply - that can outcompete them. Even compiling doesn’t, go is so fast.