A week ago, I performed a study demonstrating how certain applications can slow down Windows. If you didn't catch it, I'll sum things up now.
I took a clean Virtual PC install of Windows XP Pro (SP2a) and installed Microsoft BootVis on it. For those not in the know, BootVis is a tool that lets you time how long windows takes to start up. It does a lot more, but I wasn't interested in any of that for the experiment. I've had a lot of feedback via email over it: mostly praise and suggestions for the next round-up.
Lots of people complained about me using Virtual PC. The reason I chose it at the time is because I know from experience that VMWare is about 1000times heavier on the host OS. It installs drivers and system services all over the place and is generally unpleasant unless you need to use it all the time.
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