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Startup Boost FAQ
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Dennis5mile I agree .. even from cold boot, browser startup takes no significant time at all. Certainly a negligible amount of time compared to the network roundtrips to fetch even a simple web site.
Maybe it's a different story for older slower systems without SSD drives? But then, on those systems, do they really have RAM to spare to hold half dozen msedge.exe processes alive?
And if those processes get paged out to disk (swapfile) will they really resume any faster than a freshly started process?
I am skeptical .. imho this needs to be measured, on real world customer systems, not in a test lab -- and across both older/slower and newer/faster configurations. And if it's only saving a few milliseconds of startup time, it's not worth the added complexity and trouble.
on real world, I've been testing this for a couple of months, it is useful and I see significant speed boost when I try to launch Edge.
I'm using SSD on M.2 port, one of the fastest, with startup boost, Edge launches instantly, without it, Edge takes a little more time.
so far I'm not talking about after restarting your computer, just when you normally close Edge and then reopen it, immediately or some time later.
that being said, it's also useful after Windows login, Edge launches faster since its components start loading as soon as possible.
you can disable startup boost, only for when Windows boots up, by disabling Microsoft Edge in startup section of task manager.
Startup boost in Edge is useful in more areas other than when you start your computer. the main advantage is when you close Edge and reopen it immediately or some time later.
I'm using SSD on M.2 port, one of the fastest, with startup boost, Edge launches instantly, without it, Edge takes a little more time.
so far I'm not talking about after restarting your computer, just when you normally close Edge and then reopen it, immediately or some time later.
that being said, it's also useful after Windows login, Edge launches faster since its components start loading as soon as possible.
you can disable startup boost, only for when Windows boots up, by disabling Microsoft Edge in startup section of task manager.
Startup boost in Edge is useful in more areas other than when you start your computer. the main advantage is when you close Edge and reopen it immediately or some time later.
HotCakeX I do see Edge listed in TaskMgr startup list .. but I don't have any setting re startup boost in edge://settings/system
Hopefully the screenshot I pasted is visible..
I suspect something is horked with my install, but no idea what. It's a 2-week old clean install .. nothing but Office and Visual Studio installed. :shrug:
If there area any registry keys or anything else I should look at, which control the visibility of features in edge://settings, I'm keen to learn.
- Startup boost is not fully rolled out in stable channel.
in task manager, there are 2 things related to Edge, one of them is updater or Edge update, which should stay active and not disabled.
that's what you must be seeing.
if you want to try start up boost you can use a higher version in insider channelsHotCakeX I don't necessarily want to try Startup Boost .. I just want my system to not be buggy.
I'm a former Chrome user but was giving the new Edge a try before installing Chrome on my new rig.. given my system is such a recent, clean install, I was expecting this was some sort of known issue -- but I guess not.
So far it doesn't seem to be causing any real problem, and there are some little things I like about Edge vs Chrome. So I'll wait to see if this fixes itself .. if not I'll probably do another clean reinstall when 21H1 is available.