Your fastest boot time

[mycoolkim]

used to be 10 secounds but now about 15

[illicit]

I would have to say that the fastest boot time that I have ever had was approximately 20 to 30 seconds.

[Martyn]

From cold boot just after a format, about 30 seconds.

From a cold boot about six months after a format about 75 seconds.

[jimbo12141]

cold boot, around 8.5 seconds (Server 2003)

[-hurley18]

Around 15 Sec.

[Brian M. Veteran]

beat this:

windows xp on pII 400mhz - 19 second boot up :D. it was god awful slow after that, but it booted fast! now, it takes around 40 secs to boot 2000

[Alladaskill17]

9 seconds, restarted just to test and be sure.

:rofl:

[dL]

My boot time sucks. Anyone know how to improve it? It just seem to get worse and worse. Is it because I never shut down (and rarely restart) my computer?

dL

[Toastyone]

defrag maybe?^

I posted on one of the first pages of this thread when it was first started but I have since sold that computer and my Apple is actually faster :D Dual 1GHz 1.5gb of ram running OSX 10.3.9 from when I push the start button to when it is on 12 seconds! :woot: Speed baby :wub: My poor mini is slow though :/ takes about 30 seconds

[Shetland]

nine years, i think.

i cant remember...

[sanghoku]

cold start, typing (short) password, loading processes and tray stuff... i'd say about 1-1,5 min...

[Alladaskill17]

nine years, i think.

i cant remember...

:rofl: :p lol

[chopyaedoff]

Clean install - >20 Seconds.

1 Month old install - 40 Seconds.

[Matrix XII]

Probably around 12 seconds.

[BigDaddy]

12-15 seconds..

[MiG-]

12-14 seconds

:huh: my bios probably take around 8 seconds, my pc probably takes around 40 seconds to fully boot:

apps running on boot:

Mcafee Virusscan Pro + Personal Firewall

Steam..

UltraMon

Windows Media Connect

DuMeter

Msn Live Messenger.

Creative DLL's and Volume Panel

Around 300mb usage on boot.

[AimLXJ]

Around 10 seconds, but when I updated my BIOS, its like 15 seconds now :(

[phot0nic]

I'm confused. What do you guys mean by "boot time"? Because some of the times are REALLY low, and I have a feeling that different people mean different things with boot time. I have a fairly modern system, and it takes a good 45-50 seconds from pressing the power button until Windows is fully loaded and ready to go. I'm curious how some people are booting in 15 seconds and such.

I mean, I defrag, I've used TuneXP, my computer is clean of malware, unneeded services and such are all disabled... All of which help, but not NEARLY enough to bring my boot time down to 10-15 seconds. Could the fast boot times be hardware related? What hardware makes for faster booting? What hardware slows booting down?

[MiG-]

I'm confused. What do you guys mean by "boot time"? Because some of the times are REALLY low, and I have a feeling that different people mean different things with boot time. I have a fairly modern system, and it takes a good 45-50 seconds from pressing the power button until Windows is fully loaded and ready to go. I'm curious how some people are booting in 15 seconds and such.

no they are just talking out of there arses.

u cant get a system with a few start-up apps loading in 15 seconds, the BIOS takes that at least, windows takes a good 5 seconds on a fresh install with 1 user, no way can u be pushing 15 seconds.

[hougtimo]

Mine on a clean nLited and optimised installed of Windows .net Server 2003 (yes I am running the Beta 3 build. It is better than RTM :p)

BIOS : 14seconds (disabled floppy / cd / dvd booting checks)

Windows : 4seconds (literally. Bootscreen and logon notifications disabled)

[Jase]

^ exactly the same as me :D

[j0nnymoe]

mine wud be about 30-40 seconds including the bois, i aint to bothered about the boot time, due to computer being on all the time when im home, :)

[Blainex]

For me the average time is about an hour or so... abotu that or maybe 2 hours :) lol only joking hmm about 3 minutes or so

[freeza]

23 seconds

[riot]

Mines about 40-45 seconds. I only reboot every couple days, so it doesn't matter much to me.