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		orionblastar 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Recall going back into Windows When my father was alive (He died in 2010), I gave him a Linspire Live CD to boot if Windows XP ever failed for him. He used to work with AT&T as a phone installer and worked with 1ESS computers and UNIX. He liked Linspire Linux, and I paid for a license. It looked like Windows, so it was easy to adapt to the GUI, and he knew what to do in a Linux CLI shell. I got a Windows 10 PC that takes 30 minutes to boot up, and bought a $2000 Windows 11 PC from Microcenter to replace it. I will install Debian Linux on the Windows 10 PC when Windows 10 expires in October 2025.

MLij 11 months ago [–]

For me AppData\Local\Temp in the users folder was the culprit with slow boot. Deleting it solved it for me. It probably is safe to delete, but check https://superuser.com/questions/571901/is-it-safe-to-delete-.... That said, I'll probably ditch Windows as well if I can find a suitable solution for remote desktop.

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