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One of the most common questions that people these days ask me regarding their home PC’s is how to have it startup and go straight to the desktop. This used to be the only option, and when Microsoft did us the favour (!) of allowing us to have multiple accounts, very few people embraced this enhancement. Read more…
My desktop PC that I use for software development has been taking longer and longer to boot recently. It got to the stage that I could start it, go downstairs to make a coffee, come back upstairs with the coffee, and drink it before I could do anything useful with Windows. (OK, so I *know* that there’s an argument that trying to do anything useful with Windows is an exercise in futility, but that’s not the point of this post….!)
The moment that I’d been dreading over recent months finally came, when I couldn’t stand this startup rubbish any longer. It was time to reinstall my operating system!!!