Lenovo has come up with the worlds best timing in booting up Windows 7. That is 56% faster than any other when loading XP or Vista. These are featured in Thinkpad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktop PCs which also certified with "Windows 7 Lenovo Enhanced Experience".
These machines will load 33% faster and shutdown 50% faster than any other identical hardware.
Some specific steps Lenovo took to fine-tune Windows 7:
- Fixed the drivers of on-board hardware components that were cumulatively causing massive delays. For instance, Lenovo discovered a driver for a "popular wireless device" had been written to pass worst-condition certification specs and thus would grab 4 MB of continuous memory from the system in 4 KB chunks, Locker said. This added five seconds to the time it took for a PC to go to sleep. After getting the third-party vendor to fix the driver, Lenovo cut the driver's overhead to just 200 milliseconds.
- Tweaked the BIOS phase of startup to temporarily hide some devices from Windows 7, so that the OS only loads the drivers after the boot is finished.
- Tweaked Windows 7 to delay the loading of non-essential services and applications until after startup. Those include automatic-updating apps for Adobe and Microsoft, or even Windows features. While users can try to fiddle with Windows themselves, Locker warned that do-it-yourselfers likely won't achieve the same improvements.
- Rewrote its power manager to be easier to use. It also included an extra chip in its notebooks to more precisely measure the remaining battery life than Windows 7's, and help you "stretch" it out as long as possible.
Windows 7 is really making a change in the OC business these days. Microsoft seems to regain its lost glory once again but only time will prove.
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