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This made me wonder if they have addressed the main issue behind scenarios like that, which, in my experience, is the application of GPOs. I haven't actually had a win7 machine on a domain so I don't know, but I sure do have similar memories of "applying security policy" taking forever in XP.

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I usually get coffee instead of staring at the laptop.

But I wonder how big a difference a smarter disk-elevator algorithm would make.

Or something that logged file-accesses, made a list of disk-block-no of that, sorted the list, and early at next boot read of blocks from that list. This is to avoid boot-time being spent waiting for random disk-accesses.

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