Ever since XP added the great feature where Windows now boots in less than one minute, we've all had to live with being unable to use Windows for the first 5 minutes after it's all booted up because it presents you with an inert or sluggish desktop while it continues to finish booting in the background.
It's sort of like when you cleaned your room as a kid. You know, your mom would say "Did you put your socks in the hamper?" and instead of saying "Ummm, no", you'd run back into your room, then come back out a minute later and announce "Yes!"
You can get a gadget for Vista that lets you watch the CPU usage on your computer. What I find very odd, however, is that while in XP my CPU will spin at 100% for the first 2-3 minutes after booting, in Vista it never seems to get above about 14%.
Is Vista that much faster? No. Vista is lying. If you attempt to interact with the machine, you will immediately discover that Vista isn't finished getting ready. You can click an icon to select it, but double-clicking won't launch the application for at least 30 seconds--if at all. Even better, right-clicking won't even bring up the context menu for items in the system tray. But Vista isn't busy, oh no: the CPU is sitting there at 8%.
It's like telling your kid to stop watching cartoons and go clean up their room, and having them say, "Okay, I'm done" without taking their eyes off the screen. Then if you ask them if they picked up their socks they say nothing. After the cartoons are over, they get up, go ride bikes for a while, then come back and pick up their socks. THEN they proudly announce "Yes!"
If Vista was my kid, I would become an abusive father in self defense. And no jury would ever convict me.
Posting this from Kubuntu,
Chalain
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