Posted by Solar Flare on January 22, 2006, 12:51 am
XP powers up between 6 seconds and 20 seconds depending
on where you left off.
> > It states "1 minute of cranking gives enough power
for 10 minutes of
> > operating"
> >
> Its no good - its only for people who type REALLY
fast;
> Microsoft Operating system takes 9 minutes to boot,
and
> this leaves you only one minute to type and use the
thing.
Posted by Mr Wizzard on January 22, 2006, 11:15 am
> XP powers up between 6 seconds and 20 seconds depending
> on where you left off.
Ah, I didn't know this.
> > > It states "1 minute of cranking gives enough power
> for 10 minutes of
> > > operating"
> > >
> >
> > Its no good - its only for people who type REALLY
> fast;
> > Microsoft Operating system takes 9 minutes to boot,
> and
> > this leaves you only one minute to type and use the
> thing.
> >
> >
Posted by Steve Spence on January 24, 2006, 10:04 pm
Mr Wizzard wrote:
>>It states "1 minute of cranking gives enough power for 10 minutes of
>>operating"
>>
>
>
> Its no good - its only for people who type REALLY fast;
> Microsoft Operating system takes 9 minutes to boot, and
> this leaves you only one minute to type and use the thing.
>
>
so crank it again. And get a new computer, mine takes 2 minutes to boot.
--
Steve Spence
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Contributing Editor, http://www.off-grid.net
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Posted by Derek Broughton on January 25, 2006, 8:23 am
Steve Spence wrote:
> Mr Wizzard wrote:
>>>It states "1 minute of cranking gives enough power for 10 minutes of
>>>operating"
>>>
>>
>>
>> Its no good - its only for people who type REALLY fast;
>> Microsoft Operating system takes 9 minutes to boot, and
>> this leaves you only one minute to type and use the thing.
>
> so crank it again. And get a new computer, mine takes 2 minutes to boot.
It's not usually so much the computer as all the stuff you've got set to
start up at the same time. If your computer supports hibernation, never
shut it down, just hibernate it. My XP desktop starts up in about 30
seconds (to a log-in prompt - I always log off before hibernating - it
takes another minute to log in through the domain). My linux laptop, a
slower beast but running many more services, starts up in 90 seconds.
--
derek
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