How much data does windows write on boot
- by soandos
This question was inspired by Bob's comment to my answer here.
On boot, windows writes files to the hard drive (I imagine this to be the case, as it has a way of detecting if the boot was previously interrupted by a hard power-off, and I am sure many other things).
But assuming that there is a "smooth" boot, where there are no error, etc, and no logon scripts that run, and things like that, about how much (a few KB, a few MB, a few GB) data gets written to the drive?
For simplicity's sake, assume that:
hibernation is turned off
windows 7
pagefile is turned off (does this matter right at boot, or only later?)
How could one go about measuring this? Are there resources that have this information?
