You need some updates

[Airbrushkid]

I do every night I go to work!

Windows 10 has a priority for loading the GUI aspects first and foremost which gives the end user the impression of it being a faster boot time but it is artificial in the long run because after the GUI aspects appear it's still loading quite a bit of stuff in the background. Windows 7 does this differently as expected with a more traditional "load the guts" kind of situation so it's more accurate overall if you measure Windows 7 vs Windows 10 in a purely cold boot situation.

Regardless, my question still stands: Who the hell turns their desktop or laptop computers off?

 

[M76]

Regardless, my question still stands: Who the hell turns their desktop or laptop computers off?

Why would you not turn your computer off when you go to bed at night, and the earliest you next going to use it is the next evening when you get home from work?

 

[Deleted member 245375]

Why would you not turn your computer off when you go to bed at night, and the earliest you next going to use it is the next evening when you get home from work?

Go to bed? Get home from work?

I'm retired, man, such things are not a real concern for more me anymore. And I use laptops exclusively for the past 5+ years now so leaving them on has no bearing on most anything, at idle my Latitude pulls a handful of watts at most, it's not worth the time or the trouble to shut down or even go to sleep/standby mode in my experience and my particular usage.

Of course that's just me and as noted my post did end with a smiley which usually means there's some jest going on (like the one I'm about to type).

 

[BulletDust]

Go to bed? Get home from work?

I'm retired, man, such things are not a real concern for more me anymore. And I use laptops exclusively for the past 5+ years now so leaving them on has no bearing on most anything, at idle my Latitude pulls a handful of watts at most, it's not worth the time or the trouble to shut down or even go to sleep/standby mode in my experience and my particular usage.

Of course that's just me and as noted my post did end with a smiley which usually means there's some jest going on (like the one I'm about to type).

At full load when benchmarking my gaming PC tripped out a 900w UPS! Obviously that's not going to be the case when it's in sleep mode, however my ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Z just won't have a bar of it. It'll sleep, that's no problem, it just won't wake up.

 

[BulletDust]

Here's an article on booting Linux in one second, could be very useful for embedded devices.

 

[KarsusTG]

I must be in the minority, I always turn off the BIOS full screen logo and ask it to display all the data instead. I like seeing it and I miss when it would count / check the memory installed and show even more data.

Can you imagine what that would do to the boot times of modern computers. Waiting for it to scroll through 64Gb of memory...

Also, I am fairly sure you cannot defer all updates any longer. I am pretty sure the "Important and Security" updates download and install regardless of your settings and you get to defer the restart and many a problem has stemmed from the update installing at an in-opportune time...

 

[M76]

Can you imagine what that would do to the boot times of modern computers. Waiting for it to scroll through 64Gb of memory...

Also, I am fairly sure you cannot defer all updates any longer. I am pretty sure the "Important and Security" updates download and install regardless of your settings and you get to defer the restart and many a problem has stemmed from the update installing at an in-opportune time...

You can only defer feature updates like the anniversary update. But even those I think you can only hold off for 90 days max.