I had bought the upgrade over a year ago and finally installed it until yesterday. The main reason I did so was that I had (or thought I had) read that Win8 booted much faster than previous versions (I was running Win7.) The upgrade to 8.0 took about 3 hours, included downloading and installed the 100 updates that were available. Once the updates were installed, the update to 8.1 became available and I installed that. Took another 3 hours (I have a 5 year old PC with an Athlon 4850e CPU and IDE drives.)
It seemed to be running fine today but I accidentally hit shutdown instead of sleep last time I was done for a while. Whereas it took about 3-4 minutes to fully boot up under Win7, I swear it was 7 or 8 minutes before Win 8 finished. And the first time, it shut down before fully booting, which is disconcerting.
So did I remember incorrectly about Win 8 booting faster or is it just because of my ancient hardware?
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