If you’ve ever complained that starting Windows 11 isn’t as fast as you’d like, I have to tell you until the middle of this week, there were some people who were much, much worse off than you. And I’m not exaggerating, and I’m sure if you try to get into the skin of these people, the next time you start your computer, you’ll feel like you’re mastering a formula. -1 the car that has just been assembled for you.

It is now necessary to clarify that we are talking about a very, very specific type of user who is not defined by age, gender, ethnic group or political and sports affiliation. No, the difference factor in this case it is a matter of work duties. And that’s because if we look at the list of enhancements in the Microsoft update KB5012643 for Windows 11, we’ll find one that will surprise us a bit:

«Fixes an issue where some POS terminals occasionally delay the operating system during a restart of up to 40 minutes.»

Yes, you are reading correctly and this is not a transcription error. While this is still something that has not been publicly revealed, it seems that with certain combinations of software and hardware specific to this type of device, the Windows 11 configuration posed a type of problem that, as an unexpected consequence, was also quite unbearable for users. resulted in terribly slow startup and restart of Windows 11.

I realize that after reading these startup times other times came to mind, specifically the installation of Windows with a number of other elements that were loaded at startup on mechanical hard disks with moderate performance and connected via the PATA interface. I still remember turning on my PC and using that time to go make coffee, smoke a cigarette and talk to someone, etc.

And there is no doubt that the first advent of SSDs marked a spectacular change in this regard. I remember perfectly when I first tried a Mac with Fusion Drive, a mixed disk format (a mixture of mechanical disk and solid state memory) intelligently managed by macOS (then Mac OS X). The operating system and boot items were stored on the SSD and booting was supersonic.

Windows 11, like its predecessor, they are quite efficient operating systems And when it comes to booting speed compared to macOS, my personal experience is that they don’t have to say anything, because in both cases, booting is very fast. All I have to do is compare Windows 11 to some Linux distribution in this regard, as I haven’t used Ubuntu and Debian for some time (they were my favorites) and my memories of this are not entirely clear.

Be that as it may, the cause of this problem in Windows 11 has, fortunately, already been solved, the cause of this problem in Windows 11 is attracting attention and arousing a lot of curiosity. imagine how businesses affected by this problem lived with the same problem. Because it’s one thing to be able to make coffee in the time it takes to start a computer, it’s another thing to have time to brew and bake some cookies.