Your fastest boot time

[inum]

in windows installation setup theres a little hidden thingie/feature that optimizes the cpu usage, if enabled my boot time is abt 12sec

[witalit]

Maybe you could give a better discription of what 'little thingie' lol.

[-hurley18]

18 sec

[moeburn]

A tool to show your boot time:

Uptime.exe

Put this program in your startup folder, reboot your pc, and it will display a message box showing you your boot time. Windows loads the startup folder after it has been told to load everything else.

Source code included.

[witalit]

It works but there is some Runtime error when closing it.

[traxx]

I get like 3 seconds, but I have a ramdrive :whistle:

[Cboy]

Laptop and Desktop:

36 to start (from pressing enter in boot password)

10 to turn off (from pressing shut down)

[Mr Mialo]

For those who get below 20s, it would be really helpful if you mention what mobo/cpu combo you have. Maybe even mobo bios.

It will help in my next PC purchase. It will be a factor, but not a major factor.

BTW for those with the really fast start-up is that including all extra programs that load up during startup or just to get to the desktop with nothing loading in the background?

[dougal.s]

I'm interested to hear about this little thingey as well!!

How many of you guys actually went and tested your system after reading this thread? I play about with my boot times when I am really bored, is interesting the tweaks you can make.

Interstingly, despite my fast boot time (see 1st page), my pc takes over a minute to shut down. Have never found out how to optimise this. Any ideas?

Dougal.

[lnmnky]

My boot times have increased, lol. I used the registry thing up there ^ and tune XP and it's 5 seconds longer for the longon screen, and 5 seconds longer for desktop to be finished. hmmm....

Lucky I don't turn it off for days on end or I'd be annoyed.

[Mr Mialo]

Interstingly, despite my fast boot time (see 1st page), my pc takes over a minute to shut down. Have never found out how to optimise this. Any ideas?

Dougal.

This used to occur to me when I set a registry setting to clear my pagefile at shutdown. Do a google search for this setting and check to see if it is enabled on your system.

If you are using a tweaking program, maybe it set that setting.

[Kev1n]

So is it safe to delete the prefetch folder's contents?

[Premgenius]

11 - 18 seconds

[Borbus]

Just after I reinstalled with SP2 slipstreamed it took about 10 seconds to get to desktop. It was classic logon. Most of the time was before the logon screen, its about half a second after I logon that it has fully loaded. No stuff installed at that point, just Y'z Dock.

Now I have zone alarm pro and a few other things in the tray. Maybe 2 seconds added to the boot time.

Unfortunately my MOBO isnt the quickest POST. It stays on the sata bios screen for about a second before continuuing.

[ziper]

i remember the good old times with windows 95 :) 5 secs from the moment when you pressed the power button until your in windows and it's all finished :)

on my workstation im in in about 12 seconds. on my laptop from ibm with lot's of junk stuff from ibm i get in in about 3 minutes, got to love ibm.

[Borbus]

i remember the good old times with windows 95 :) 5 secs from the moment when you pressed the power button until your in windows and it's all finished :)

Lol, my windows 95 PC took more like 15minutes to boot up. That was when I was a noob and I didn't notice it until I installed 98 and it was reduced to about 5 seconds. I always wonder what stuff was running on that pc that I didnt want to be running...

[CubanPete]

SO does no one using 2003 with active directory & DNS want to post?

20 secs mine using winXP SP2

[traxx]

I don't think too many server admins sit around tweaking their OS all day.

[Diablous]

i got windows xp down to 7 seconds the other day, i'm gonna try again.

[critchley]

11 seconds. on windows XP

[Amnesia]

from the bootscreen I would say 5-10 seconds.

On average overall it is 10-15 seconds.

[Enisada]

Mine takes too long it has to go through too many RAID controllors and I don't shut it off so it don't much matter.

[Nelsinho]

yup... i barely never reset my pc... its always turned on ;D

yep, same here :)

[Mr Mialo]

yep, same here :)

Earth leechers!!!!! :alien:

:D

[Herby]

My boot times have increased, lol. I used the registry thing up there ^ and tune XP and it's 5 seconds longer for the longon screen, and 5 seconds longer for desktop to be finished. hmmm....

Lucky I don't turn it off for days on end or I'd be annoyed.

Hmmm... strange,.. works perfect here, especially the Registry Defragmenter. :huh: