runs your battery down. Resuming from hibernate is much faster than a cold boot and preserves your battery life. Switching to a solid-state drive would speed up boot times significantly, especially the newer, faster drives. Being mindful of how many applications...

11:30 PM - I started formatting drive E: with FAT32 but saw no indications of any activity other than the drive LED was on. I shut the system down and went to bed. Sunday August 4, 2002 1:40 PM - I started the system from a cold boot. The boot time to logon...

addresses the concerns of many Psion users about preserving the computer's powerful "instant on/instant off" capability. With HORM the OS can come from a cold boot to fully running in 5-6 seconds, according to Microsoft. For a mini laptop running Windows XP...

machines. Setting changes take about 5 seconds to save and I didn't really run into any situations that required a restart - which was a good thing since restarts and cold boots take about 90 seconds! In keeping with the security focus of the product, both...