Is boot time still an issue?
One of the things we do well at Soluto is enable people to understand what runs in their boot, what’s required and what’s not, and allow them to speed boot time. I’m often asked why this matters, because it seems today no one reboots their PC, they put them to sleep. I know I don’t - I reboot my laptop maybe once every two weeks, and my home PC even less.
As it’s a popular feature, there are two ways to look at it from a product management perspective.
- The “Let’s Convince The World There’s Value” way. Here, I’ll give it a try. The boot is a process where all that’s required to run in the background starts up. So every service or app you remove from the boot is less weight on your ongoing experience. If you’re supporting someone else through Soluto, they’re probably less savvy and so have absolute crap running in the background, crap that probably raises popups, tray balloons and other shit like that. So you can improve their experience. One last thing, for those who love to use msconfig - many of the apps you remove from your boot will return themselves there as soon as they can. Soluto maintains your configuration by kicking those apps back off the boot. So there’s value, right? But let’s move on to the more interesting and generally smarter perspective.
- The “Let’s Look At The Data” way. Here, I’ll give it a try. How can we know if rebooting windows is important to people? Let’s start by looking at how often the average user reboots their PC. Apparently, across our user base, we see an average of 1.16 boots per day. That means on average people boot almost every day. And that’s roughly true across different Windows versions and across countries. Now naturally our user base is tilted towards people for whom boot is important, but we’re talking about a very large amount of people. Why are they rebooting so often? Maybe it’s because they’re unaware of the fact that the Sleep functionality has significantly improved in Windows machines in the past years? Or maybe it’s corporate policy? Or just being old fashioned? Does it matter? When you look at the data, it seems there many millions of people for whom boot time is an important issue. So let’s put a smile on their face! By the way - do YOU know who they are?
So although Soluto’s service now does much more than allowing people to understand their boot and shorten it, boot time apparently is still an issue for many. As a product person, you must be able to step out of your own habits and look at the data. If you ask the right questions you may be surprised to find out you’re actually a minority in a very important group.
If you yourself are suffering from a slow boot and would like to shorten your boot time - go ahead. Apparently the average Soluto user shaves 36 seconds of their boot :)
More info here.
Source: soluto.com
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