Comments on: Leave it on or shut it down?

By: Seshadri Dhanakoti

Seshadri Dhanakoti — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:55:00 +0000

Have you tried scheduling a defrag and tidying up the cache once a month? My XP on my very old desktop was slow. I gave it a bigger hard drive space and have a defragmentation scheduled every week using the XP scheduler and this 8 year old machine is very good for simple stuffs like voice chats, browsing and the like. Just an idea.

By: RunningTracker

RunningTracker — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:57:42 +0000

Thanks for your answer Eric. Yeah that’s what I thought. I read in one of your previous posts that you were doing some dot net development… I can understand that you need Windows for this! Anyway, let’s hope Windows 7 will boot and shut down as fast as the new Linux distribs!

By: Eric Wroolie

Eric Wroolie — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:24:48 +0000

@RunningTracker Thanks RunningTracker. I use Ubuntu on my laptop (using it now) and really like it. Sometimes I need to do ASP.Net work or other MS work for clients, so I keep the desktop on Windows. That’s the only reason I haven’t completely switched over.
I prefer working with Ruby on Rails lately and have been really tempted to dump XP altogether. The only thing keeping me on is iTunes and Visual Studio. I know both have alternatives in Linux, but I’m not too impressed with them.
But Ubuntu (or any Linux) looks more and more attractive all the time.

By: RunningTracker

RunningTracker — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:18:47 +0000

Well I guess it won’t satisfy your needs but just for your information, my ubuntu OS boots in less than a minute and shuts down in 5 seconds… and my laptop is 4 years old.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000