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QOTW: What's the first thing you check when your PC boots up?

by Parm Mann on 8 November 2013, 16:30

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We all have our little routines during PC boot. My old machine used to take so long to get to the desktop I thought of it as an opportune moment to make a cup of tea.

These days, with an SSD under the hood, there's little time to think about where to go next, but for most of us there's still a very particular routine of what to do once you hit the desktop.

So, for the latest instalment of our Question of the Week, we're asking: what's the first thing you check when your PC boots up?

Do you go straight for your email inbox, are social networks your first port of call, or must you know if software updates are available before doing anything else?

Then again, perhaps you're the sort of computing ninja that has everything appear automatically via a script you wrote in your sleep?

Either way, let us know using the comments facility below.



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Check if the internet is still working, before a sigh of relief!
I have 2 icons on my Windows 7 taskbar - Firefox and Thunderbird - both of which get clicked then I hit my BBC - Homepage bookmark on my bookmark toolbar.

I actually don't know why I haven't set them both to start automatically. It's almost like the clicking is a ritual now.
I launch Chrome which opens 4 tabs, Outlook, OCUK (see their today only deals), Guru3D and Hexus.net. Then once I've checked them i check Facebook.
I come in from school at 4PM, tell my parents I am home run up stairs and hit my keyboard to wake from sleep, have a piss, get a can of Monster from the fridge and then check Facebook to make sure the whole world hasn't gone to **** while I have been offline.
I check HEXUS! I must win a competition!