Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Windows 7: You can finally see what’s booting
First, Windows 7 is over-hyped already just like Vista was. Unfortunately for those who buy into the hype, a reality that Windows 7 is nothing more than a minor update will set in real fast. It’s a good update nonetheless, and the more I’m using it the more I’m seeing “this is better than Vista” attributes. It’s a more “polished” version to steal a phrase commonly reserved for Ubuntu vs other desktop distros.
Regardless, I found a new, interesting feature playing around with the Windows 7 beta. First, fire up the msconfig app
Now in the Boot tab, you will see options for “No GUI boot” and “OS boot information”. If you check both of these options, you can see Windows starting up similar to what you’d expect in a classic Linux boot. Now I’ll warn you – this can take a long time. I’m not sure why, but it took forever when I did this. I would think it’s no different from a booting perspective, but it’s not…
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July 18th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Dean said:
I am surprised that showing what is booting would take longer. I would have thought rendering the nice animation they have on boot would take longer.
I don’t like to go back to other OS’s after using Windows 7 personally, nothing is ever worth the hype, but using old OS’s seem a little old-school now. Ubuntu is nice, but it will never run my nice design apps (and lets not start on open-source design apps when talking to paid designers, they don’t compare yet). Cross Over boots some of the ones from a few years ago, but the latest from Adobe still require Windows or Mac OS.
August 7th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Henrik said:
Thats odd, should be booting a lot faster, stupid function… You are definietly right about the over hype situation, but you must admit that Windows 7 is way better than Vista, there is a lot of actual improvements.