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[theweaselking]

Quote of the day:

I remember some magazine article about Windows 8, and it talked about how fast Windows 8 started up compared to Windows 7. The way they measured it was by putting a shortcut to Notepad in the Startup group, then booting the computer, and timing how long before the Notepad window opened.

I laughed at this metric because I control when startup groups start up. As in me, personally.
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Measuring how long it takes for Notepad to open is in large part simply a way of extracting the parameter I passed to the Sleep function.

- Raymond Chen on the decisions behind how and when "run at startup" programs run.

Comments

[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

Programmer Laughs at Perfectly Cromulent Metric Because Of Secret Knowledge that Does Nothing To Invalidate Said Metric.

It's an interesting insight into Window's startup routine, but he presents it as a dismissal of the startup-group-as-test-condition. It isn't. If you're waiting for something in your startup group before you can start working-- as many people do-- the metric is perfectly good.