Tired of slow-booting computers? Diskeeper has a solution, although consumers can’t get it directly. It’s called HyperBoot and is only available on certain notebooks. Diskeeper recently announced a deal to put the HyperBoot solution on ASUS notebooks — the second such deal with the company. Neither ASUS nor Diskeeper specified which notebooks are part of this partnership, however. The solution apparently learns about a device’s boot sequence and subsequently gets faster as it learns. Even computer shutdown speed is increased and the boot time reportedly doesn’t degrade over time.
In a video demonstration of HyperBoot, two identical laptops are continuously booted up and shut down over a 17-minute span. The machine with HyperBoot is the clear winner, with 24 boot sequences over the 11 cycles of the notebook without HyperBoot. Clearly, the solution speeds up the boot and reboot process and I doubt any of us would turn down this kind of improved performance. But this begs the age-old question of booting vs. sleep/resume.
Using a mobile device with Microsoft Windows Vista or 7, it’s fairly efficient to utilize the native sleep function and wake up the machine as needed — and that function is much more stable than it was with Windows XP. The initial boot is the pain point, then, and if you’re not booting as often, how much value does a solution like HyperBoot add? We probably have good representation of those using the boot and shutdown approach, hibernation throughout the day or liberal use of sleep and wake. The choice probably varies due to the situation, but which of the three is your preferred method to manage your mobile device? I’m a sleeper, myself.

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