Kernel Summit: Desktop performance [LWN.net]

Kernel Summit: Desktop performance

Posted Jul 22, 2004 20:04 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: Kernel Summit: Desktop performance by Ross
Parent article: Kernel Summit: Desktop performance

Only 5 to 10 seconds? I have a corp-issue XP laptop. They throw so much mandatory crap in the per-user startup folder it isn't funny. I wait a good 30 seconds or more, waiting for such stuff as:

network logon scripts
backup software (why isn't this a system service? why do I have to see it? why does it slow the laptop to a crawl whenever it runs?)
virus software (same complaint as for backup software)
firewall software (again... why not a system service?)
who knows what else?

It's really quite annoying.

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