Your fastest boot time

[akaladis Veteran]

bout a minute here... dont really care though... i never boot :p pc is always-on :p

[insanekiwi]

15 seconds :yes:

driverheavens tunexp is godlike.

[uniacidz]

Mines about 30-35 secs

Im not gonna win a million dollars or have greater enhanced sex and extra stunning good looks if my boot time is lesser then this, so really, meh.

[Farchord]

Basically settings for booting up the computer of last existing times. If you delete all of that, then it sets the system back to defaults.

Example; IE won't be maximized when you open it as default, if you have directories set a certain way, it goes back to windows default, etc.

From Microsoft, the prefetch is a memory management feature that saves all the executables you run in pre-execution form and saves them into the prefetch folder.. On startup, windows tries to load all the files in the prefetch folder into memory to make applications run faster.. the problem is that every executable you run (from setup files, to softwares, to utilities) is automatically saved in that folder making your windows slower with time.. it doesnt have anything to do with directory settings and windows settings. :)

Hmmm interesting! Thanks man :) Just learned something really valuable today :)

[sebflipper]

My laptop takes about 30 seconds to boot (not including typing my password), or about 2 seconds if I leave it on Standby.

[w33zy]

When i wake up i start my pc then i going to pee i come back and its ldone

[AaronMT]

About 15-20 seconds

A7N8X-X

XP 2600+

XP Pro SP2

No bios splash page, one half a full bar load on the XP boot screen (the green rectangles moving sideways)

No startup items.

[insanekiwi]

Mines about 30-35 secs

Im not gonna win a million dollars or have greater enhanced sex and extra stunning good looks if my boot time is lesser then this, so really, meh.

:rofl: haha.

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

4-5 mins

eh!

[krmathis]

Probably around 30 sec. :unsure:

[jerry]

12-14 seconds before SP2, its close to 30 now.

[Toastyone]

I CAN BEAT YOU ALL MUHAHAHA! :devil: My P3 751MHz with 384mb of ram running XP with sp2 takes only 45 seconds to load and another 5 seconds for the cpu temp control and Mcafee systems to start. I am realy to rock and roll in about 50 seconds lol.

On my gaming system I can get it up in 20 seconds only because I have all these things in my start up folder :blush:

[L3thal Veteran]

Takes me on average 22 seconds to boot up (timed it 4 times).

[drekon_v1]

Probably around 30-45 seconds or so at home, and about the same or a little longer for my laptop

[jack_canada]

about 20 secs

[shockz]

From power on to being able to hit the start button... 9 seconds.

Now its more like 25-30.

[figgy]

I am school now. I am going to see how much it takes after I go home. (So much for my uptime record!)

What tool did you guys use to measure boot time?

[saxondale.]

30ish seconds..since i put sp2 on...i really need to reformat

[Mikeparkie]

mines about 30 secs. which is four windows blue bars on the windows loadup screen

[John Veteran]

Moved to Tweakers' forum

[chconline Veteran]

My Best PC is 10 secs

Worst pc is like 3 minutes... lol

[Kev1n]

So how do you guys get these smokin fast speeds?

[Herby]

So how do you guys get these smokin fast speeds?

SP2: 21 seconds.

Tips:

? Defrag your HD and Memory (NTREGOPT)

? Clean Prefetch Folder

? Tweak the Services & Startup Items

? Rearange the Bootfiles (with Bootvis or TuneXP)

? Get a new :pmputer :p

[Kev1n]

Basically settings for booting up the computer of last existing times. If you delete all of that, then it sets the system back to defaults.

Example; IE won't be maximized when you open it as default, if you have directories set a certain way, it goes back to windows default, etc.

From Microsoft, the prefetch is a memory management feature that saves all the executables you run in pre-execution form and saves them into the prefetch folder.. On startup, windows tries to load all the files in the prefetch folder into memory to make applications run faster.. the problem is that every executable you run (from setup files, to softwares, to utilities) is automatically saved in that folder making your windows slower with time.. it doesnt have anything to do with directory settings and windows settings. :)

Dunno what you are really saying since I'm a n00b.But I assume you mean I can delete everything in the prefetch folder without altering my settings? Is that it?

[Dean W]

Wow, amazing Computers Boot that quick....... Im gunna test mine :)

By, the way when disabling Services to make it boot quicker, what serivces do u need for Booting and for ICs?

Quick Question plz :)