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too complicated booting process

Submitted by sergeev0 on June 3, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Boot process is not stylish or contemporary. POST must be escaped from the screen if there is no problems with the hardware and after showing the desktop all must be ready for work immediately. The user will think that the boot process is much faster and it will look muck better - no uploading icons in tray or on the desktop after showing the wallpaper. Look at Mac OS for example - beautiful and fast booting makes grea "wow" effect and is really lovely.
By the way there is no space between "r" and "p" in word "corporation" when green blocks are runnig on the screen- looks ugly.

Escape the POST from the screen, show "green blocks" from the very beginning (they also could have different colors for different versions as in XP, but not really sure this is good), Show "welcome" adress until all the icons are loaded and the desktop is totally ready for work.
Make one or two pixel space between "r" and "p"

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Discussion (5 comments)

Simon wrote on June 3, 2008, 10:13pm

Windows has no control over the POST at all, POST is done by the BIOS. Apple are able to control this only because they control the hardware that Mac OS runs on.

sergeev0 wrote on June 4, 2008, 12:09am

I know. But the instrument to hide POST can be created. Call it "Windows EasyStart" and give the stickers "EasyStart compatible" to motherboards and notebooks with this technology. It's not more complicated, then ReadyBoost.

Arteekay wrote on June 4, 2008, 7:23pm

it's a lot more complicated than Readyboost, you're asking Windows to replace BIOS, and not with EFI but with a custom and proprietary firmware.

Won't happen anytime soon, although I would expect the transition to EFI to start picking up speed.

fcsteve wrote on June 4, 2008, 10:22pm

As noted, this isn't an OS issue, just that PC's generally still work on highly dated low level io system..

*EFI that are seen on Macs should become common on PC's in the next 5 years.. I believe Vista SP1 supports EFI booting now?

QuiescentWonder wrote on June 13, 2008, 1:04am

Too bad there isn't any way to do this...

nyp wrote on February 12, 2010, 8:00am

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