Your fastest boot time

[L3thal Veteran]

Takes me between 17-19 seconds from the initial pressing of the power button until all programs are loaded. Running XP x64 with 2x1gb of Corsair XMS Ram.

[nizsmo]

Man how do you guys get boot-time under 20sec?

I'm struggling with 1min :p

[j.r.l.]

My good computer cold boots at 15 seconds but I never reboot, I put it on S3 whenever I need to and in case the power goes out, I have a small backup (online UPS) that keeps the RAM running for about 2 hours. So boot times never exceed 2 seconds.

[neufuse Veteran]

On a 15K RPM SCSI RAID 5 array with 4 HD's and 3GB of RAM running Dual Intel Xeon processors at 3GHz each, we can get it to boot in 8 seconds :p

[chopyaedoff]

On a 15K RPM SCSI RAID 5 array with 4 HD's and 3GB of RAM running Dual Intel Xeon processors at 3GHz each, we can get it to boot in 8 seconds :p

I can beat that - Windows 3.1 on a Sempron 3100+ with POST disabled.

[neufuse Veteran]

I can beat that - Windows 3.1 on a Sempron 3100+ with POST disabled.

psh power on to DOS in 2.1 seconds.. :p

[Phantom Puppet]

~30 seconds

bios takes about 10, and windows 20.

[Pajter]

~30 seconds

bios takes about 10, and windows 20.

Same here :)

[Bamsebjørn]

Windows 2003 Web Server: 16 seconds

Running on a Pentium 4 2.8 ghz with 512 MB ram.

[soppa]

Mine is about 2,5 Minutes. But my harddisk is pretty ****d' up! :D

[98SExpert]

6-8 secs :)

Athlonn XP 2000+ 256 ram/266 hd 40gb

I defrag a lot and I dont have any program starting with windows :p

But I?m still trying to find out how I did this cause I cant do that speed in my Athlon XP 3200+ with 1gb ram/400

:DD

[lord of war]

my old laptop is a PIII 850mhz, 512mb ram, and mine boots in 15 seconds or so, i dont have any extra programs run at startup, my desktop is a amd athlon 64 X2 4200, 1gb ram, it takes around 10 seconds.

[cork1958]

Oh yeah. I set and time all 7 of my systems every time they boot! :no:

They ALL take less than a minute though.

Cripe!! Even my Intel Celeron 600mhz with only 384MB's memory boots Ubuntu Linux up quicker than that. It booted Windows XP up quicker than that also, up until yesterday anyway, when I installed Ubuntu Dapper as the ONLY OS I will be using from now on!!

[Koolance]

Hey Guys, not to be a smart a**, but is this all you do? reboot reboot reboot..... lol

I not for sure, but I think you are eventually going to wear something out....

[New_Age]

Mine right now is about 20Sec. My Fsatest I've had was about 12Sec.

[shihchiun]

I once got it down to 47 seconds (Windows XP), but it's probably up over a minute again.

[M.F.D.K]

last time i restarted my system was 2 weeks ago its 24/7 on, it takes around 13 seconds to boot and thats been achieved using Autopatcher's bootvis. ;)

[randeepsamra]

18-20 sec over here

[daCrazyDude]

This is all BS. Shut down means shut down. Not hibernation or standby.

And people are posting blistering startup times because they don't have any startup items, have RAID support with 10000K RPM drives (that's quite OK - I have nothing against those people; it's their money after all) and turning the Windows prefetch off.

Turning off prefetch speeds up things only if you don't have anything in the startup. Sure it will lower the number of times the green bar moves from left to right, but after you enter the password, it will take longer to get to a fully operational desktop. I have few items on startup (to name them, Windows Live Messenger, NOD32, ADSL AutoConnect, HotKeyboard, uTorrent, AntiCrash, TaskSwitchXP and Ad-Watch - all of these are essential to me), so I never disable prefetch. Besides, with prefetch, you get faster application startups. IMO that's more important than Windows bootup (which you would probably see once a day or less).

However, to answer the original question...

I'd say about 30-40 seconds from the time I hit the power button. This is on an AthlonXP 2600+ with 1.25GB RAM (heading towards 2GB because increasing Windows cache has proven to be a very effective performance enhancer) and 2MB cached 7200RPM 160GB hard drive without RAID or anything fancy.

I have done several things to fix some issues as well as make Windows XP SP2 more stable and now I'm leaning towards Hibernation rather than complete shutdown. It sure is faster than the standard Windows boot. Besides, I can leave the programs I run more often open, such as Outllok and Firefox. This is where that 2GB RAM steps in. Overall, this is a faster Windows experience.

[Omnichronos]

My computer takes just over 12 minutes to boot!!!! And that's after using bootvis, several spyware & antivirus scans, Black Viper's reccomended running processes, pcpitstop, several reg cleaners, removing all startup programs, replacing faulty hardware etc. It's that slow in safe mode too.

[Konstanov]

About 25 seconds because of my dang bios....

[Jojo81]

I am on the 64 bit version of XP and the longest it has ever taken to boot without tweaking is about 10 seconds. I am getting it's in the 6-7 range normally.

[Saymaad Mansoor]

The fastest was when 1 sec when I bought my new PC :

P-4 2.8 Ghz HT RAM : 512 mb HDD : 40 GB 7200.2 RPM

After an year with lots of customization crap & more then 30 software it takes me 10-15 sec also because of my 2 SB Live Audigy 2 AZ cards BTW I also updated my PC to :

P-4 2.8 Ghz HT RAM : 1 GB HDD : 120 GB 7200.2 ATI Radeon 9200

I know its quite much but hey its better then other people around the globe with P2 & P3;)

[StevenNT]

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)

so..... how to you patch this then? :sleep:

very secure i bet.

[TanuKi Beard]

Well, check it out yourselft