Microsoft Makes Longhorn Performance Promises

[tesco]

Seems like the "better preformaces" can be achieved in XP.. Look:

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The difference in boot speed between XP and Longhorn isnt made by changing one reg key.

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Silly me is gonna try it anyway.

[peat moss]

I liked this quote for those of us who like it simple.

Among the key features of Vista are a new searching mechanism, lots of new laptop features, parental controls and better home networking. There will also be visual changes, thanks to Avalon, ranging from shiny translucent windows to icons that are tiny representations of a document itself.

On the business side, Microsoft said Longhorn will be easier for businesses to deploy on multiple PCs and will also cut costs by reducing the number of times computers will have to be rebooted

[IKT]

Seems like the "better preformaces" can be achieved in XP.. Look:

Longhorn's most useful feature "leaked "as XP tweak

Microsoft claims Longhorn will be, er, faster

The only reason why its faster is they added a superfetch feature to the prefetcher. If you look at the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\Prefetcher

you will notice in windows xp

EnablePrefetcher = 3 and you will notice in windows longhorn
EnableSuperfetch = 1

Well, guess what? You can put the EnableSuperfetch = 1 in windows xp and get the same speed.

Wow, Microsoft just added a feature that was already there in xp.

Source: The Inquirer

OCAU Tried it, it made for an interesting reaction but in the end BS.

[erRor67]

Yeah, i know. I tried it before i posted it and didnt notice that much of a difference. Just though i would spread the word and see what results other people get.

[Tylerrought]

i didnt noticed much from it, my pc does boot about 5 seconds faster. but im not sure if thats just a thing that happens that seems like it happens from 1 thing when it really isnt there at all and im just thinking it does because i changed something.