Your Windows bootup time

[JDArt]

I'm always perplexed when I read reports on the Web that, with an SSD and a fast machine, people are experiencing Windows bootup times of as little as six seconds.

I have several machines here, dual and quad core among them, and even a newly installed Windows 7 on a quad core machine requires 1 minute and 9 seconds to go from cold to usable desktop.

What's your bootup time? You don't need to use a stopwatch, as I did, but it would be interesting to get ballpark figures.

[zemlin]

All three of my machines run XP. The faster of my two desktops - an intel Q6600 quad core - boots to a resting desktop in about 1:45 - just the post on this machine takes a while with multiple RAID capable controller chips each requiring their own initialization sequence - I'm not going to bother to time my other desktop, but I've got a bunch of stuff in the startup folder - so I push the button and go away for a while when booting it up.

My laptop - low-end Core2 Duo based machine - boots to the desktop in just about 1 minute.

I wonder if what these SSD folks call "booting" is actually a cold boot, or a restore from either a hibernate or standby state?

[JDArt]

Originally Posted by zemlin

I wonder if what these SSD folks call "booting" is actually a cold boot, or a restore from either a hibernate or standby state?

I'm thinking that they aren't really talking about bootup but rather resume from standby or hibernate.

[mcbit]

Originally Posted by zemlin

My laptop - low-end Core2 Duo based machine - boots to the desktop in just about 1 minute.

I have several machines which will pull a desktop in around a minute, but being useable is normally another minute and it really doesn't matter much about the spec of the machine.

[Seawolf66]

Heck I just bought a new machine the spring and got the cats meow for myself at least I thought so : Its a dell Insperon 530 with Intel Core 2 QuadC CPU Q6600@2.40Ghz with 4 gb ram
Update the vidio card to a Nvdico GeForce 9400 GT 512 mg card and the O/S does not help either Windows Vista Home Premium : Dam slow!
The complecate the matter lately I have gettting Stack overlaod warning :

[felix.reichardt]

Windows 7 RC 64 bit, Q6600 Quadcore, Landparty DFI board. Asus 8800GTS graphics, 8GB RAM:

35 seconds cold boot time from the last BIOS message and excluding time required for password input. Talking about responsive desktop, once the screen is there I can immediately work with it means loading applications.

[JDArt]

Originally Posted by felix.reichardt

35 seconds cold boot time from the last BIOS message and excluding time required for password input.

Ah, I always counted BIOS load time as well. That's not fair now that I think about it.

[felix.reichardt]

Originally Posted by JDArt

Ah, I always counted BIOS load time as well. That's not fair now that I think about it.

I think you need to exclude that time since that heavily varies from machine to machine and is depending on how many drives, other hardware etc are found plus which BIOS release is used.

[KatMitchell]

Quad core and Vista, and mine takes about 2 minutes to fully usable. I manually shut off a lot of stuff on the start up menu though... I guess 2 minutes is good considering what a big butt Vista has...

It would probably be faster if it did not have to load my object dock too..

Kat

[swampler]

I have no idea. I just put my system to sleep after using it and it wakes up almost instantly. Only reboots whenever there's an update that gets installed, or if I power off during a storm.

[Killjoy]

What seems like forever, is about 2 minutes.
Q6600, 4Gig Ram, 256M Video Card, 2 HD's, XP Pro

[JDArt]

Originally Posted by swampler

Only reboots whenever there's an update that gets installed, or if I power off during a storm.

I install and uninstall stuff almost every day, and reboots are all too often required--even now, years after Microsoft acknowledged that, normal startups and shutdowns aside, Windows users have to reboot their machines far too often in the course of ownership.

[KatMitchell]

With all of that installing and un-installing, you might need to consider a clean up JD.. Have you tried CCleaner? I use it every day... CCleaner - Download It keeps things running smooth and rids you of unnecessary boot files from past programs that you have un-installed. and it's free...

Kat

[400duser]

Under a minute, plus sometimes I leave it in sleep mode, which makes it even faster

[400duser]

Originally Posted by KatMitchell

With all of that installing and un-installing, you might need to consider a clean up JD.. Have you tried CCleaner? I use it every day... CCleaner - Download It keeps things running smooth and rids you of unnecessary boot files from past programs that you have un-installed. and it's free...

Kat

I have tried it, all it is every done is ruin the installation that I have run it under

[KatMitchell]

Originally Posted by 400duser

I have tried it, all it is every done is ruin the installation that I have run it under

I have used it for a long time now and have never had a problem, it even keeps the registry running clean. You never know though.. it could be the difference in operating systems perhaps? I dunno...

[R. House]

HP, Vista, Dual-core, 4 Gigs Ram with Login and Sidebar...51 Seconds. I have HP Total Care Advisor disabled.

[felix.reichardt]

Originally Posted by JDArt

I install and uninstall stuff almost every day, and reboots are all too often required--even now, years after Microsoft acknowledged that, normal startups and shutdowns aside, Windows users have to reboot their machines far too often in the course of ownership.

On a normal workstation this should not be necessary and it will definitely slow down your system a lot. If you are testing software consider VM Ware or similar. You can make use of snapshots and revert in a matter of seconds.

[Rogue]

Gateway computer,
Vista 64,
AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-Core 2.2 GHz,
8 GB Ram

From "Sleep" ~10 seconds.

I've got it set up as a multi-boot system (Vista, XP & Win7).

From "Cold" including multi-boot menu & password about 4:30.

Minus Multi-boot & password about 2:55 (about 25 sec of that is Bios).

[Douglas]

Mines fairly old. a 64 bit AMD 2300mhz processor with 1 or 2gb of ram. It takes about a minute to go from off to desktop, and thats with no little gizmos in the system tray. (I try to keep a clean machine). My sister's seems to take like 3-4 minetes. But she has a ton of programs running. Something I could never deal with.