Your fastest boot time

[cubebomb]

mine is 30 sec or so, but for you guys that have below 30sec, insted of showing how great and fast your system loads up, why dont you guys post up some or at least more tips for the other users, thanks

[Windam]

25 sexonds

this is on a dell 5150 with a clean install with all drivers loaded.

1) never create two partitions on a disk(especially on a notebook), this causes a big slowdown(experiences may vary)

2) don't use the bundled software w/ crap OEM disk, it will have apps that you won't use

3) defragmentation is important

4) do not run antivirus software (if you want a less resources av app go with NOD32)

5) do not run a firewall use a router(hardware firewall) instead

6) Make sure your room is well ventilated and cool

7)disable services that you won't use lets say on a desktop wireless zero config for those who are on wired lan

8) Buy some ram like 2GB or so

9) disable startup apps you don't use

10) disable quicktime and itunes help startup

Edited June 27, 2006 by Windam

[Agnes Leroy]

My system boots in by about 25 seconds....

For getting max from ur sys

remove startup progs

disable unwanted services

defrag hdd.

clean all the junk

drfrag and optimize registry... :) :D

[inactiveaccount]

my fastest time is 7 seconds back in the good old days of Windows 3.1.

I just disabled all the drivers (who needs em, anyway?), and disabled HIMEM. 4 seconds from flipping on the power switch to program manager.

:D

On a more modern note, when I installed Windows 3.1 onto my new dell computer (since i was going to restore my comp later on anyway), I was at the windows desktop just after the bios screen went away, at a mind boggling 4 seconds.

:D :D

Currently, I have XP with all startup items disabled except AIM, MSN, and sound manager, and it takes 1 minute.

[SionicIon]

10 minutes or so!

[Brian M. Veteran]

16 seconds here - in some fuxx0r3d system - i was trying to get it running in as little ram as possible - just screwed it up in the end :p

[cedced]

1~2 minutes

[Lyric]

3 hours....

lol.

Nah, about 15 seconds or so, depending on how fast I type my password in, lol. :laugh:

[Dm4975]

14.3 seconds exactly.

[ßéár]

13.6 sec

[Corris Veteran]

about 14 seconds, but that was after a reformat and reinstilation of windows :p

[PyX]

My fastest boot time's got to be on my iMac Intel with both Windows and Mac OS X... and it's about 30 seconds or so.

It's strange that my PC has better hardware and doesn't boot that fast eh? Mine loads in about 45 seconds and just the first BIOS screens last about 15 seconds, so for this reason I believe nobody who says below 30 secs.

15 seconds with a password.................. you're a good joker man :p

I actually get 1 min 30 after a month.

[ToneKnee]

One time i got it under 7 seconds to get into Windows, i disabled lots of options in the BIOS, Overclocked the CPU, used Boot up tweaking programs, disabled services i don't used and some other stuff. Shame i can't do that on my current desktop! :(

As for what i have now, takes around 90 seconds because i have a roaming profile and stuff.

[Matrix XII]

Got mine down to about 8 seconds when I bought it.

AMD X2 4400+

Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe

OCZ EL Platinum Rev.2 1GB

EVGA 7800GT CO

[Ksg]

My Windows XP fastest time is about 30 to 40 seconds....

My old 3.11 box can boot up in about 15seconds...

[Serpent]

My fastest is 1 minute

[ViperAFK]

35 seconds,

Dell 4600

XP home

p4 2.66 Ghz

1 Gb RAM

[ßéár]

9 sec here(i'm on a labtop

[Blazkowicz]

fast, I don't bother chronometering it.

I previously had windows 98SE on that PC (XP2400+) and it was around twice as fast, shutdown being instant. so the best and simplest advice I can give for a very fast booting is, use windows 98 :D (and I had modified MSDOS.SYS for no showing windows logo on boot)

with a modern NT 5.x windows, on a single user PC, I do these things, which don't make boot faster in itself but more lean :

use classic logon, auto-logon (with tweakUI), and in gpedit.msc : Computer configuration / Administrative Templates / "Remove boot-log off etc. messages" set to enabled.

[AaronMT]

I cant remember the last year I've ever turned off my pc, but from standby/hibernation to desktop its under 10 seconds.

[Chadwick]

cant remember the last time i booted my mac from being off, a reboot once in awhile but those were due to upgrades which lengthen the boot time sometimes. Usually open the screen and am ready to go in a few seconds, rarely more than 5.

[levianthen]

Around 35-40 seconds

[Chit Chat]

WOW

27 seconds is amazing.

Mine must take all of 5 minutes to load up with anti-virus software, etc etc.

I would appreciate it if anyone could post some tips and tricks for clearing my computer of all of the rubbish, and allowing it to boot up quicker.

Are there any quick tests which I can do to highlight areas which need fixing?

Chit Chat

[ranasrule]

40 secs

[NoneAvail]

around 2 minutes, when i press the power button this is the process

2secs: dell logo

1mini sec: blank screen

20secs: xp loading screen the moving left to right

1sec: to click on username

1min and some secs: start up items, like msn, aim, logitech webcam & mouse thingy, konfabutlator, webroot spy sweeper, quciktime. i dont know why it takes so long for simple apps, but it's alright since the sucker is used once in a while, and i always hibriate it so it wont take as long anymore