Microsoft says that “a very good system boots in under 15 seconds,” and while the early-release Windows 7 Preview doesn’t deliver a sub-15 second boot time, it does start 20% faster than Windows Vista on my computer. The only way to truly compare boot-up times between operating systems is to try them out on the same exact hardware, and as of today I’m triple-booting XP, Vista, and the Windows 7 Preview on a newly-built PC. The results? Windows 7 boots much faster than Windows Vista—but surprisingly, no faster than Windows XP. Here are my exact numbers, machine specs, and caveats.

The hardware: My test system has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 3.16GHz with 4GB of RAM. The only difference between XP, Vista, and the Windows 7 Preview is that Win7 is installed on an IDE hard drive, and XP and Vista are booting from SATA drives. That puts Win7 at a slight disadvantage because IDE drives are not as performant as SATA. Also: the version of Windows 7 that I’m using is the Preview release from last month’s PDC conference, an incomplete, earlier-than-beta, for-testers-only edition. One can only assume it will get better (read:faster) in the final release.

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i was browsing a forum and found about a nice site that let you

create your own custom wow logo or wallpaper Check it here.Enjoy !!!

i was browsing my old wow directory and i found 2 little funny add on 1 that show a gm icon next to your name and the other is a spammer addon that allow you to spam in any channel.

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With the release of the first world of warcraft expansion Blizzard adds two new playable races. The blood elves and the draenai are now skinned like the other female races of azeroth. This first release is not the most polished it could be but as the available textures get better this mod will see updates. For now enjoy.

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One of the thing that used to annoy me in wow is that every time i want to change a realm i have to go to the wow directory open realmlist.wtf and change the realmlist . But now all of those steps are history because Infinity Labs proudly present : “Realmlist editor”

Realmlist editor is a simple program that allow you to save 4 realms and switch between them with 1 simple click Plus u can Ping the server to check if it’s online !!

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Ever wanted to play WoW in Public areas like universities ? But your blocked by this annoying firewall?

Actually it was my first problem in university :p

Well here is the answer.

Yourfreedom + Sockscap32 = FREEDOM!!!

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I always wanted to create my own private wow server but always taught that it’s too complicated.well after searching and looking into many tutorials I find out that its easier to make a server than actually playing the game. here is a step by step guide to install and run a private “Mangos” server on Window

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