Why I use Windows 8

Re:Why I use Windows 8 by EwanToo on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @07:07AM (#4601409)

Hibernation over shutdowns massively improves the shutdown and startup times of my work PC.

Primarily because I have SQL Server on it for development - the services have a extremely long shutdown and startup time, which doesn't need to happen for hibernation.

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Re:Why I use Windows 8 by jasomill on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @09:10AM (#4601728)

Interesting. I rarely bother to keep MSSQL loaded because it starts so quickly...

  PS C:\> (Measure-Command { Start-Service MSSQLSERVER }).TotalMilliseconds
  1127.5208

Alternatively, if you want SQL Server to start automatically without materially impacting startup performance, why not set its startup type to "Automatic (Delayed Start)"?

As for shutdown, while it depends on how you're using it immediately beforehand, I've never seen it take more than a few seconds on a development box.

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Re:Why I use Windows 8 by davedx on Friday October 05, 2012 @02:25AM (#4615890)

I do the same thing because of Visual Studio and MSSQL - on Windows XP...

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