Startup

Application startup duration is an essential component of user experience. If you want to make sure that UX on your Windows machines is acceptable you need to monitor the time it takes for applications to start up. That, however, is not exactly easy - without uberAgent for Splunk.

[What I wrote here is wrong. Please read this follow-up article.] Here is a very simple way to reduce the time it takes to boot Windows 7 by around 20% (the exact number depends on the hardware).

Which values do I build my newly founded company on? There are many things I value highly - fairness, professionalism, quality, innovation, honesty - but one thing stands out: sharing. The IT community as I have come to know it is centered around the wish to help others by sharing information and software. I want to live with and support this community, and I will do that by sharing myself, both information and software. I have blogged, spoken, tweeted and developed free tools in the past, and I will continue to do so. I will even share what little knowledge I have of funding and running a software and consulting company, and I am going to start doing that right here.