New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content

re: New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content

gallwapa — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:18:35 GMT

Yeah - I mapped out my pay-per-second, then I did the math at how long it took me to reboot, multiplied by the number of reboots I have to do per year, plus general sluggishness when loading apps.

Needless to say it only took a few months to get ROI just in idle time to pay for my SSD here. I also did one at home and my boot time went from minutes-to-desktop to about 20 seconds (and that is only SATA2). They're fantastic ;)

Visual studio loads quick as a dream - no more hideous grinding!

re: New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content

NedPyle [MSFT] — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:46:39 GMT

I recently bought a Dell XPS 13 ultrabook, which is my first real experience using SSDs. I thought they were an overpriced ubergeek affectation.

I am now a believer though :-D. With Win8 beta installed on that thing, it goes from totally shutdown (s5) to the logon screen in around 6 seconds. I took it to a conference I was teaching at where someone had a brand new "professional" laptop with much better CPU and memory but a spindle drive, and I was mopping the floor with him running VMs.

re: New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content

gallwapa — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:34:35 GMT

Ah, the case for SSDs has made itself. ;)

re: New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content

sgrinker — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:22:57 GMT

So much for the "warning to others" :D

re: New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content

NedPyle [MSFT] — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:09:54 GMT

I blame others than myself!!!

Fixed... >_<

re: New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content

gallwapa — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:07:17 GMT

The 'twice that number' link is bad

re: New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content

Robert Silver [MCM] — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:48:16 GMT

Agree with Mike! Thanks Ned et al! It's one of the biggest crits AD guys get - poor logon performance, and to put an RoI on it to fix it, priceless!

re: New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content

Mike Kline — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:09:44 GMT

This is really good, thanks to all that worked on it! This will become one of my favorite bookmarks. I also like that you all went with the wiki format so we can make changes and add content.

Thanks

Mike