Reengineering the Windows boot experience

re: Reengineering the Windows boot experience

Shashank Timilsena — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:17:38 GMT

I think the boot screen should be made changable. for eg. the colors meet each other to form the logo of microsoft. Behind that, if users could change or replace any picture it would be better.

Thank you for giving me a chance to pour my views.

re: Reengineering the Windows boot experience

Érico Porto — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:49:43 GMT

@Steven Sinofsky

1 - We really need a safe mode option to test this in developer preview, because the system is still very instable, and I had to do this by myself using the same bcdedit commands you said you were trying to banish...And it was the first time in my life.

2 - I agree with @Tuwogaka, you guys should learn from linux, make a option to NOT screw things up and let another operating system handle the boot - is it Ubuntu, or Windows 7!

re: Reengineering the Windows boot experience

wondie — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:05:16 GMT

There is no coherence on menu, one cannot predict which page is next. Just finish the WinRE options and the boot menu in one page. If you need help in re-organizing it, I am happy to help.

Sorry for the triple post, I though the above idea might not be visible in the second post.

re: Reengineering the Windows boot experience

wondie — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:02:56 GMT

I like the new Boot Screen but it is slow to load unlike Vista/7 boot manager, which loads in an instant! Of course, it should take some time to load all those options and tools but it would be great if you could make the boot screen faster by reducing the unnecessary graphics and by increasing the necessary speed.

The other problem I see with the Boot Screen is, each buttons take lots of space, which require multiple pages to get from one option to another. It would be better to use Tabbed menu or drop down menu to navigate through options or smaller buttons to have more buttons on one page and less number of pages and complications. There is no coherence on menu, one cannot predict which page is next. Just finish the WinRE options and the boot menu in one page. If you need help in re-organizing it, I am happy to help.

The other problem I saw is that it removes any entry other than Windows 7 and Windows 8 Boot entries. I currently use EasyBCD to add ISOs in Windows 7 Boot Manager and now they are all gone. So I have to restore Windows 7 Boot Manager to see all other Boot entries again.

The other major issue while using the Windows 8 Boot Screen is, after using Windows 8, when I use Windows 7, Win 7 starts so sluggishly with out error message. I have to wait upto 8 minutes till Win7 starts running properly.

The other problem is the default boot entry time out. I could only find 5 sec, 30 sec and 5 minutes. There is no option to manually enter a timeout by the user say for instance 2 sec, 3 sec, 1 sec.

re: Reengineering the Windows boot experience

Wondim — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:42:11 GMT

The other problem is the default boot entry time out. I could only find 5 sec, 30 sec and 5 minutes. There is no option to manually enter a timeout by the user say for instance 2 sec, 3 sec, 1 sec.

re: Reengineering the Windows boot experience

無名 — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:35:15 GMT

Wow, you've taken the BSOD and made it useless. Yes, Microsoft, keep making your OS more "user friendly" by letting the idiot MBA-types instead of the Raymond Chen-types make ALL the decisions. You'll see where that'll land your products soon enough. (Hint: not on my system)

I, for one, am deeply worried about the future of what (used to be?) my favorite operating system. From what I've seen so far, Windows 8 is just another step backwards for power users.

Microsoft joined the bandwagon of "apple-ing" PCs into lifestyle products. Sigh, please excuse me while I throw up.

re: Reengineering the Windows boot experience

Joe H — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:25:15 GMT

As long as you're going to go for the updated blue screen of death, you might as well just phrase it from the first person. Like your computer is communicating with you: "I've encountered a problem I couldn't handle... I'll restart in..."

re: Reengineering the Windows boot experience

Andre.Ziegler — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:41:32 GMT

Benny

10-05-2011 10:58 PM

I have a question, do you have any idea already how much the windows will take from the RAM memory?

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If you have a PC from today you'll have no issues with Windows 8.

re: Reengineering the Windows boot experience

WinFan01 — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:50:06 GMT

What if you want to use Windows 8 with an old monitor that can only display smaller than 1024x768?

re: Reengineering the Windows boot experience

Benny — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:58:22 GMT

I have a question, do you have any idea already how much the windows will take from the RAM memory?