{"id":38,"date":"2008-04-04T10:14:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T15:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/04\/why-are-vista-launch-shortcut-keys-so-slow"},"modified":"2008-04-04T10:14:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T15:14:27","slug":"why-are-vista-launch-shortcut-keys-so-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Why are Vista launch shortcut keys so slow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!327\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<p>Count to yourself:<\/p>\n<p>One Mississippi<br \/>Two Mississippi<br \/>Three Mississippi<br \/>Four Mississippi<br \/>Five Mississippi<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how long it takes for Vista to open a command prompt (cmd.exe) when linked to a shortcut key (ctrl-alt-C).\u00a0 Trying it with other keystrokes doesn&#8217;t change the time it takes.\u00a0 This is on a Thinkpad T60 with 3 gig of RAM and a dual core processor that is lightly loaded at the time of the tests.<\/p>\n<p>When I tried this on a copy of Windows Server 2003 that is running under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/virtualpc\/default.mspx\">Virtual PC<\/a> on my laptop it was instant.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Vista, clicking on the Orb then the &quot;Command Prompt&quot; shortcut link is practically instant.\u00a0 How far we&#8217;ve come that using a keyboard to launch a program is actually slower than using the mouse!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count to yourself: One MississippiTwo MississippiThree MississippiFour MississippiFive Mississippi That&#8217;s how long it takes for Vista to open a command prompt (cmd.exe) when linked to a shortcut key (ctrl-alt-C).\u00a0 Trying it with other keystrokes doesn&#8217;t change the time it takes.\u00a0 This is on a Thinkpad T60 with 3 gig of RAM and a dual core [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}