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- noun computing The process of
booting up .
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This service is rarely used by regular desktop users and can be disabled, as it checks for network shares during bootup which is a resource heavy process.
Techie Buzz 2009
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The new models are designed to hardly ever require a traditional bootup or reboot.
MacBook Air Has the Feel Of an iPad In a Laptop Walter S. Mossberg 2010
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Faster bootup and shutdown times, and half the disk footprint of Leopard, which will save you about six gigabytes of disk space.
What You DO Get In Mac OS X Snow Leopard | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Anyone have a URL or suggestion for how to best lock down a PC so this browser (or something similar) opens on bootup and cannot be closed down?
KIDO’Z Is A Customisable Kid-Friendly Browser | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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It only takes a minute to do: shut down, unplug, pull the battery, press the power button for 5 seconds, reinstall battery, bootup.
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Super Talent VSSD offers shorter OS bootup time, faster application loading, less system power consumption and a brand new experience the customer can never get from traditional hard-disks.
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Laptops that convert to tablet PCs are one example, and PCs that let you access the web within a few seconds of powering on, while completing the bootup in the background, have been announced..
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Mac bootup sound ringtone for iPhone Download: ringtones/MacStartup.m4r Version: 1.0 Updated: November 19, 2008 Size: 38.9 KB Powered by Drain Hole This is from an inside joke here at the...
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I think that this type of BIOS (EFI) can boot MacOS on Intel, so this would really apply to whatever OS you want (though MS has definitely optimized their WIn7 bootup).
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Laptops that convert to tablet PCs are one example, and PCs that let you access the web within a few seconds of powering on, while completing the bootup in the background, have been announced ..
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