Your fastest boot time

[Tech Star]

5 seconds!!!!!!!

[itianuk]

mine is about 30 seconds.

[peter_uk]

from power button to desktop 15 seconds

[Rix]

About 12 Seconds, back in the old Windows ME days, few restarts after a fresh format :)

[Tungsten T]

MS Dos in < 1 sec

[smctainsh]

My fastest boot time was 6 secs (from login to all notifications enabled)

For my specs, see below. :D

[loc[a]lhost]

lol, it's about 3 minutes here :p but i don't care, i only restart every couple of weeks...

[leesmithg]

5 seconds!!!!!!!

585171499[/snapback]

Blinkin Nora that is smooth! I noticed since installing a new graphics card yesterday, it's added on a few more seconds, so about an extra 5 to me.

or my puter remembered what i wrote and decided to be an arse :p and go on strike.

[piggger]

i think i did like 10 seconds before, but it was because i had formatted all my hardrives and used all the tips to tweak xp to boot faster :), was done out of complete boredom

[Samoa]

who cares? what matters is how it performs after boot. :rolleyes:

[akaladis Veteran]

my best cold boot time would be around 30-40 seconds. i mean after i have finished installing software etc.

[myluvnttl]

2 SECOND!!!!! Opsss ok from stand-by. :) But from a cold boot under 30second.

[tOta]

My boot time is 20 sec messured by Bootvis.

I have a most crappy PC:

Athlon 900 @ 1044 MHz

256 SDRAM

40GB Maxtor

GF2 MX

What do think this is I think great itme for PC like this :)

[null_]

Cold boot (pressing the power button until seeing logon screen): 12 seconds

Resume from Hibernation: 5 seconds

[Sensayshun]

on Win98se my boot time was 13seconds and I just installed XP Pro and now It's much longer I should imagine about 20 or so seconds now.

Wouldn't mind having it faster but 20seconds is fine, considering the pc i'm on now takes about 4minutes.

[turkishdelight]

~10 seconds on initial testing bootup (yeah, I built my own rig)

AMD Athlon 64 3000+

512MB PQI Turbo DDR SDRAM

200GB Seagate Barracuda something

WinXP Pro (now SP2, before SP1a)

[joeydoo]

1 min dead.

Full prefetch and normal startup including ati thing, norton internet security 04, 55 processes in all. Also have to wait 20 seconds for crappy logitec bluetooth keboard mouse stuff to kick in. Thats from power button to mouse moving, well it moves at 35 secs but the bluetooth thing freezes it for 10 secs then and resets it. Thats on a 10K raptor. That is a fast drive. Some people take on here have said it takes 3 mins to load up windows. When I last installed it took 10 minutes to get to functioning windows including having to do all those setting's pages. I never timed it's startup time back when it was fresh but I remember it was very quick. Sub 10sec without trying.

[LonghornMadBoy]

16 seconds on my PC , and 4-10 seconds on my Laptop

[Brian M. Veteran]

16 seconds on my PC , and 4-10 seconds on my Laptop

4 SECONDS?!?!? thats crazy!!!

[DDStriker]

Windows loads in about 3-4 seconds(It unfades shows one of the sqaure things and goes on)... But my bios checks for 15 seconds so it evens out :) .

[Orange]

Around 40secs :rofl:

[jbonello]

3 - 5 seconds on Windows Millenium

XP takes a lot more to boot (around 1 minute to boot and load startup programs)

[micro]

12 seconds winxp64

[DigeratiPrime]

Windows loads in about 3-4 seconds(It unfades shows one of the sqaure things and goes on)... But my bios checks for 15 seconds so it evens out :) .

same :)

[mc_leish]

my XP rig boots in about 1 minute like jbonello.