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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.