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Why are my on and off radio controls so quick and those on my computer so slow?
I can listen to my radio in a matter of seconds, but it can take forever to boot up my computer and a long, long time to shut it down.
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
A radio doesn't have much to do since it is single-purpose hardware. It's hardware is fixed and cannot be modified.
A computer is always composed of components - it doesn't know what specific type they are of, so on startup it has to check if the components are there and are responding. This takes some time. Secontly, the operating system. It has to load all your settings, check, if there are broken files or something like that... and when it goes to shutdown it has to make sure your user data will be stored appropriatly and that all processes running will be terminatet adequatly, so that no data will be lost.
So basically speaking the computer takes longer because it is goddamn complex...