Oh but this is no good, if it's true: "I feel it is much slower than Windows 7 that is on my desktop". Badbonji can you confirm this? Is that your subjective feeling when you work with Win8 in comparison to Win7?
It seems like I have decided to rejoice about new and better, faster, leaner than XP OS from MS too early. LOL
The main difference in speed seems to be initially booting and also logging into users. With Windows 7 as soon as I click to login it takes 2 seconds or less, whereas it can take up to 10 seconds with Windows 8 and the initial boot seems to take forever. This normally isn't a problem for my as the HTPC is on 24/7, I mainly noticed it during installation of updates and programs/drivers which required a reboot.
Within the OS, the difference in speed is much less, I think the main slowdown might actually be having to go into the start menu and finding the application if it isn't pinned to the taskbar. The built-in mail application is very nice, however, and runs a lot more smoothly than Outlook ever has for me (which is what I am using on my desktop). The actual loading times of applications is just as nippy as in Windows 7 though, so once logged in the speed is fine. It is just the initial delay when logging in irritating.
hmm sounds rather odd Badbonji, my Windows 8 on both the laptop and my desktop perform better than with windows 7, startmenu is blazing fast and the boot up is only slowed down by my motherboards stupidly long post and other things, the actual windows 8 loads in seconds. I have found one annoying issue with Windows 8, when logging in if you have it set to your actual live account and havent stopped it from asking for password coming out of standby its pretty aggravating, you try to login and it checks but then realises there isnt a wifi connection so then asks for the last password used which is fine but it makes you type in the same password TWICE and it takes 2 prompts, it should check all in one go and if the password is incorrect let them do it again.
Apart from that I really cant fault Windows 8 after a couple months with it, organise metro and its a joy to use, much more efficient than windows 7 etc.
Originally Posted by snootyjim
I'm really shocked by that comment Badbonji too.
On my main rig, the BIOS POST n RAID bit takes longer than it does to get to the desktop from cold start.
Most apps fly, and explorer feels punchier.
Can't say the same about office 2013 thou.
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yeah same Animus, office 2013 seems pretty slow and i think i know why, Microsoft in all their wisdom thought it would be good to sync any documents you open to skydrive then open from there instead of opening the direct local copy you tell it to, they need to sort that out and as soon as they do that it will be much faster than 2010 as all the other areas seem it.
Just needs polish.
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