Funny how your Windows machine won’t shut down
March 29th, 2009
After reading this article on Cnet, I have to completely agree with Larry on his observation of his Windows XP machine. Not only does my corporate issued late model IBM Thinkpad running Windows XP takes forever to boot up, it also suffers from not being able to shut down properly. Since it is a laptop, my alternative to bypass the wait is to just close the lid and put it into hibernate. At least that shaves off about 3 minutes wait time for me. Its quite embarassing when I use my laptop to help troubleshoot the network and if I had to reboot; it’ll take approximately five whole minutes before I can start working my magical tech skills. As for the shut down problem, I hardly experience that since I almost never turn the damn machine off to begin with. However, reboots are nightmare... Continue Reading...
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