From: Steven Fisher on
In article <jwolf6589-09C1ED.23240226022010(a)nntp.charter.net>,
John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> This is a very nice idea but I recently uninstalled it because of the
> snail speed it was running. I need 4GB's to run this. Nospam was right
> all along! Sadly the uninstaller did not remove everything so I had to
> do a little work myself and a little use of the Terminal app.

I didn't say anything because I was hoping for your sake that Parallels
was different, but that was my experience with VMware Fusion 2, too. Did
you try less memory allocated to the Windows VM?


Steve
From: M-M on
In article <doraymeRidThis-A5D492.08460828022010(a)news.albasani.net>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Not on my winbox (it is lean and mean because I am off line
> mostly wit it), but on most others I happen to come across, it
> seems to take ages to start up and be ready properly to go.
> Please God, never let me have to use Windows and PCs for other
> than occasional testing of things.


Windoze no matter which iteration takes tediously long to start up no
matter what.

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From: dorayme on
In article
<nospam.m-m-D6E6FB.00334328022010(a)cpe-76-190-186-198.neo.res.rr.c
om>,
M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> wrote:

> In article <doraymeRidThis-A5D492.08460828022010(a)news.albasani.net>,
> dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Not on my winbox (it is lean and mean because I am off line
> > mostly wit it), but on most others I happen to come across, it
> > seems to take ages to start up and be ready properly to go.
> > Please God, never let me have to use Windows and PCs for other
> > than occasional testing of things.
>
>
> Windoze no matter which iteration takes tediously long to start up no
> matter what.

So, mine, which you have no experience of, would be *tediously*
long to start up? Define your terms and maybe let's have a bet.

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dorayme
From: Wes Groleau on
M-M wrote:
> Windoze no matter which iteration takes tediously long to start up no
> matter what.

Not if you have an SSD.....or so I've heard.

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From: M-M on
In article <hmuui2$u0t$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:

> M-M wrote:
> > Windoze no matter which iteration takes tediously long to start up no
> > matter what.
>
> Not if you have an SSD.....or so I've heard.


I think the real problem is I use it rarely and every time I boot Win it
seems there are updates to be installed.

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