I wonder if HyperSpace is Linux based. :-)

Do people still turn their mobile computers off? The last time I turned mine off was for one of those damn Windows updates. Otherwise it's Sleep Mode.

That's one thing I like about Vista compared to XP - with XP I felt the need, every so often, to restart the computer to get it running nicely. That doesn't seem to be necessary in Vista.

Yeah, I only reboot for Microsoft Updates, and even still my systems generally take less than a minute to boot up. I can't help but laugh at the people who shut theirs down every night. Especially, since-- on my company network-- antivirus scanners and other network connectivity events happen when booting up. If they left their computer run, those events would happen overnight and wouldn't delay the boot process.

Of course, I'm always interested in hearing people I work with complain about how long it takes for their computers to reboot. As their IT guy, I often reboot them while fixing them and find the boot times to be roughly a minute to minute and a half. That's not including the login time which adds about 30 seconds to the clock once they return from a "coffee break" to enter their password.

The way I see it, people are so demanding that everything in life be "right here, right now" that even short periods of time such as a minute seems like an eternity. The irony, of course, is that they get up to get that cup of coffee or to B.S. with a coworker for 5-10 minutes and they come back to the login prompt and think, "Good grief, *it* still hasn't finished," as they continue to wait for the login.

Mind you, it would help if OEM's and software companies didn't insist on having umpteen zillion apps running at startup, and if scheduled events (like antivirus scans) were intelligent enough to skip running on a boot cycle because of missing an overnight event.