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[steve jones]

I suppose I'm boasting but after some brilliant help on these forums I now have a clean laptop that boots up in 60 seconds dead. From what I've read that's pretty swift. Can anyone beat my time?

[AdvancedSetup]

60 seconds for a system that is not brand new and has probably many types of programs installed is good. Mine starts up in about 36 seconds from a power off, not a sleep or hibernate mode but it has very little software on it and used for testing mainly so I keep it lean and clean.

Don't have the link but I hear that Microsoft has a custom build of Windows 7 on a laptop, I believe, in a lab that starts from cold off to desktop in 18 seconds.

[steve jones]

Wow that's good! As you say, mine has a typical load of software and 1000's of pics, so I'm happy. I don't have a netbook, but am i right in thinking they boot up pdq?

[AdvancedSetup]

Not really. I bought one for my wife and it's a pig if you ask me. Under powered and slow overall.

[mountaintree16]

after some great help from Exile , about two minutes at most. I haven't actually timed it, though, maybe I should. I will and I'll post back tonight!

If my AV is updating as its starting up though, it will take longer, which is really annoying sometimes :/ lol

It was like 5 minutes or so before he helped me... ech.

[srtools1980y]

Here it is 80 sec. for desktop & 60 sec. for laptop.

In systray I keep only security softs & C partition will always have about 75% freespace.

[MAM]

By me i think 2, no 4 Minutes, to boot up my System

Startup, KAV, Superantispyware, and others....

MAM

[yardbird]

from a cold start, 60 sec. max.

[chimpy]

I would say 60-90 seconds but I do probably have alot of things that start up that should stop but i'm too lazy and noobish to

[swagger]

Roughly 37 seconds for my Windows 7 laptop to boot. And that's with me having to manually select Windows 7 at the boot loader screen. My desktop is probably not far behind. I would say 45-50 secs. I'm interested to see how fast exile's is because he keeps everything disabled at boot, including his network adapters.

[steve jones]

So it seems like a bit of housework can get you a PC that starts in around a minute or less - compared with my wife's (which takes minutes cos the children are forever downloading smileys etc ). It's amazing what we accept though - if you had to turn your car's ignition key then wait a couple of minutes before moving off, it wouldn't feel like a good car! Good ol' Bill Gates eh?

[YoKenny1]

steve jones, on Oct 9 2009, 02:15 AM, said:

So it seems like a bit of housework can get you a PC that starts in around a minute or less - compared with my wife's (which takes minutes cos the children are forever downloading smileys etc ). It's amazing what we accept though - if you had to turn your car's ignition key then wait a couple of minutes before moving off, it wouldn't feel like a good car! Good ol' Bill Gates eh?

You haven't driven a car on a February winter's day in Winnipeg have you? Good ol' Mother Nature eh!

My Windows 7 system boots up much faster than my XP Pro system and I haven't bothered to time it as by the time I go to boot the XP Pro system and come back its ready and waiting.

[exile360]

Mine takes somewhere between 1-1 1/2 minutes to start up, primarily due to my bios which has a seperate loading screen that takes forever for the IDE/Raid chip on the motherboard to detect the IDE drives I have installed, although my primary drive is a SATA 10k Raptor .

[steve jones]

lol YoKenny1! You are right there. In the UK, an inch of snow brings us all to a stop...

[sho-dan]

As long my computer boots up, I'm happy.

[srtools1980y]

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As long my computer boots up, I'm happy.

Vexed but true statement!

[catscomputer]

I thought my computer was fast, until I read this thread! I guess I'm comparing it with the old dunger I used to have that took flippping ages, and our work machines which are out of the ark and aren't any better. Paint dries faster than they boot up.

Mine takes 55 secs from pressing "on" to the login/password page, and then another 15 secs for the desktop to appear after that, and a further 60 secs before all the taskbar icons and the vista side bar have fully loaded.... 2mins & 10 secs in total.


I'm also of the "as long as the thing DOES boot up" mindset.

[exile360]

Well, if you're on Vista be sure not to disable the ReadyBoost service, even if you never use ReadyBoost, because part of its function, aside from allowing flash memory to be used as a swap file for ram (similar to the paging file on your hard drive, but faster), it also optimizes your boot speed over time in much the same way that SuperFetch optimizes ram usage by preloading your most commonly used applications into memory, while still allowing the cached memory to be reallocated should you execute a ram intensive program that needs the memory being cached.

[catscomputer]

Is this reply for me exile? Yep I have vista, but I haven't touched anything called ReadyBoost. This is the first time I've heard the term and I wouldn't know where to find it... is it enabled by default? If it is then I should be all good. Never heard of SuperFetch either.

I do do disk cleans rather obsessively (just the one found in system tools), but I'm not sure if that would have any effect.

[exile360]

Yes, it's enabled by default . Many people disable it thinking that fewer services running will always = faster PC performance, but in this case it's certainly not true, I tested it myself on my own system.

Running disk cleanups would do no harm to it whatsoever .