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Faster Boot Times in Windows 8: Building Windows 8 Posted: 09 Sep 2011 07:01 AM PDT A new entry in the “Building Windows 8″ blog has been published, titled “Delivering Fast Boot Times in Windows 8″. He recognizes that boot time is one of the features most discussed about, and says the Windows division wants your boot to be as fast as possible. It comes as a welcome addition to the information that we’ve been given about Windows 8 – Windows 7 and its predecessors seem like lightyears behind Apple products in terms of booting up. I’m sure that everyone reading this post has encountered long periods of frustration as your computer restarts in what seems like an eternity. He displays this new need for a faster startup time with two graphs: This means that on average on nearly every Windows 7 device (I’m assuming no tablet inclusion) 51% of all power transitions are shutting down, which really outlines the importance of improving this feature. Their solution? A new hybrid combination of the tradition cold bootup and resuming from hibernate. An explanation of shutting down and boot, worded excellently by Mr. Sinofsky, is in order:
And boot:
The thing to remember is that in a traditional shutdown, the user sessions are closed and in the kernel session services and devices are closed to prepare for shutdown. In Windows 8, they close the user session but instead of closing the kernel session, it is hibernated. Hibernation basically means saving the system state and memory on disk (hiberfil.sys), and then reading that back on resume. Pairing it with boot gives a boost for boot times, since reading the hiberfile and reinitializing drivers is faster on most systems they’ve tested. Here are some helpful graphs for those of you skimming past the words: And finally, a video:
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Posted: 09 Sep 2011 06:24 AM PDT Yesterday Steven Sinofsky posted yet another entry on the “Building Windows 8″ blog. The strange thing about it is that when referring to Windows 8, he put it in quotations, like so in the title: Bringing Hyper-V to "Windows 8"This convention was not used in the blogs about Windows 7. However, it is to be noted that Windows 8 was referred to normally in the rest of the article. Microsoft is known for teasing us with little bits and pieces of information through its videos and whatnot, so I would not take this new rumor very seriously. Unforunatley, we are not going to be writing about the new post until later, so you can read it here. But it is fun to guess and make up names for the new iteration of Windows. What do you think it’ll be? I think Microsoft should get a thing going with fruit – Windows Phone Mango and Windows [insert fruit title here]. Any fruit other than the apple, though. That’s definitely taken. No related posts. |
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