Everything you know is wrong.
I'm not in any big rush, but I would like to know if there is a well-defined point at which Windows has done all that it's going to do by itself, at which time the ball is then in my court. Please remember that I am not trying to speed things up.
I asked an MCSE and he said that as soon as all your programs finished loading, you'll see no more programs being opened. You'll also notice your mouse will not have the hourglass next to it.
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If you have Vista add the cpu meter to your sidebar. When it settles down close to zero everything is loaded and ready to go.
When you can move your mouse around and the pointer is an arrow- you can begin using your computer.
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Your mouse will be an hourglass while loading up your programs. Most computers also have a processing light. This light will light up (in most cases it will flicker on and off) while its processing. When this light stops coming on your comptuer is fully booted.
You can speed up this boot time with this site: Increase Computer Performance
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