I just want to bang on dee drum all day.

Hi,
 
I'll bang on it later and get my 2nd machine done ... was too lazy on my days off!

bapu
I just want to bang on dee drum all day.

So, it's not because ewe don't wanna dance?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Never mind, I see that ewe play bass.

bapu
I just want to bang on dee drum all day.

Sorry, this isn't the Rundgren thread. 

I had a dual boot with W7 and XP, I put my working W7 on the XP partition and did a clean install of 10 and rebuilt my system afresh as my main partition has been in action for quite a few years and originated as an XP installation that got upgraded so I figured on making a new start and dropping some of the things I don't use into the bargain.
 
Having imaged it I did upgrade it first though and that went fine and the lappy upgraded fine too.
 
So two upgrade installs and a clean one without any issues at all, no problems with hardware drivers or any of the software I'm using (Sonar 8.5 loves it!).  The missus did hers too without incident during or since.
 
W10 seems a few Gb leaner (in terms of hard drive real estate) than earlier versions too but that might be to do with the amount of moss I gathered on the old system over the years.  I've got W10 and the original W7 installs side by side now on the dual boot and XP is officially dead although I can still resurrect it at a moments notice if I ever feel masochistic or nostalgic.
 
The most painless OS upgrade ever, even given that I was lucky enough not to bother with Vista or W8.

I just realized that Microsoft works as base 9 which is why we now have Windows 10 coming after Windows 8.  Yeah, that must be it... 

Just looking through some of the items in Control Panel, I noticed that out of the 16BG of RAM I've installed, it says that 15.9 GB's are available.
Not sure if that's accurate or not. In Win 8, the OS took about 3.5 GB's.
 
Maybe Alan Parson's is right.......  

craigb
I just realized that Microsoft works as base 9 which is why we now have Windows 10 coming after Windows 8.  Yeah, that must be it... 

I just thought they wouldn't know numbers and how to add them ... except money, of course!

I did a re check on boot time. I did it twice with the same results. I turned my laptop off yesterday and just booted it while starting my timer at the same time.
I didn't mark the time when my fingerprint scanner came up but it was less that 30 seconds. My desktop was up and working at about 1 minute, 10 seconds. All the icons were filled in at 1 minute, 20 seconds. Sonar Platinum was up and had a simple project working at 2 minutes 10 seconds and the CST scan window finished at about 3 minutes. However I was able to load a VST instrument into a track while the scanner was sitting there. It is working better. The up/down arrows are working better, at least on this forum and using IE. I did notice that when I first rebooted yesterday (I rebooted once before I shut it down) that it was very slow to shut down the first time then finally told me to not shut it off because it was installing updates. I thought I had it set to let me know if there are updates but let me choose when and if to install them. My DAW is 8.1 and is set to completely manual. I'm not ready to go to 10 there yet at all. I'm going to try to set this laptop to completely manual on the updates.
 
Question: (if you know) at some point I set a few programs far a delayed start. I don't think it was helpful and has become annoying. Do you know where I go to change it back so nothing is on a delayed start?
 
Thanks,
Speedy

Julien, would this work? http://www.thewindowsclub.com/delay-loading-of-specific-services-windows
 
Although it's actually showing you how to Delay a service, I'm guessing it's the same place you'd disable it too.