>>>>>It also has a built in firewall to protect your machine from the internet. Did I mention that my machine will boot in like 15 seconds?
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>>>>Hi Erik,
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>>>>Is that pretty typical boot time for XP and if I may ask out of curiosity, what kind of hardware are you running it on?
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>>>I run it on several machines, and 15 seconds is generally the best case scenario. Add network connections, slow hardware, and it goes downhill from there, but the point is that XP boots faster than any Windows OS I've used before.
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>>Thanks Eirk. When you say adding network conns., etc. begins the slow down process, can you give any ballpark type figures? I realize it may not be estimable, but I'm interested because one of the managers here was asking.
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>It's inestimable because it depends completely on your network and machine config.

Gotcha, figured. Thanks.