Your fastest boot time

[matty13]

From the welcome screen, about 25 seconds until ready to go. + ~7-8 progress bar thingys (in the boot screen)

Lol i get less i get like 2 bars thats it to bootup and like 10 seconds booting it up fully. (Well :p Did reinstall recently :p)

Intel P4 3.06Ghz HT

1GB Ram

[Matermine]

Officially 3:46 for me :)

Yes, thats 3 Minutes and 46 seconds...

I already have 45 seconds when the windows xp loading screen finishes...

Then the most of it comes from desktop lag....My network connections are what take so long, but even after they are loaded, it takes around 45 seconds to load the rest of it.

What makes your computer run better? (faster) i seem to have lag all the time...like opening notepad after being idle for about 3 hours takes around a minute...

[TurboTuna]

eh, i don't see the point sitting there counting the seconds for my bootup ;) I turn it on, go grab a drink, come back and its ready :)

[Matermine]

eh, i don't see the point sitting there counting the seconds for my bootup ;) I turn it on, go grab a drink, come back and its ready :)

I turn my on....get a drink, make a sandwich, turn on the tv, sometimes make a milkshake, and it still isnt ready :)

[matty13]

I turn my on....get a drink, make a sandwich, turn on the tv, sometimes make a milkshake, and it still isnt ready :)

Haha so you manage to get a drink, drink it all, then make sandwich eat it with tv turned on, then make a milkshake drink it then it still isnt ready?

After about 15 minutes?

Hmmm phishy.

[mycoolkim]

10 seconds on my laptop

[Unto Darkness]

My Windows XP Home Edition takes 6 seconds to boot consistently! Beat that! :D

From Cold boot to a usable desktop, according to Bootvis, it takes 17.17 seconds [inculding entering of password].

[_neutrino Veteran]

from when i push the button till the computer is completely loaded it takes on average 8 seconds however if you count signing into pidgin it depends on the network speed.

[Unto Darkness]

from when i push the button till the computer is completely loaded it takes on average 8 seconds however if you count signing into pidgin it depends on the network speed.

Serious? Windows XP? How did you do it?

[iZoom]

I call BS. I'd love to see a video of that and then I will retract my statement, otherwise it stands.

Even my meager laptop with nothing on it more than maybe a few progs like Firefox and iTunes still takes 20 seconds to boot.

Desktop is around 35 seconds or so and I have no 3rd party apps loading and disable some services that I don't want to start either.

A thread like this should require or suggest posting a video to actually prove the statement, otherwise this is just hokey.

[KeeperOfThePizza]

the speed of how fast your computer starts clearly does not dictate the quality of an operating system!

i'd rather my computer take 2 minutes to boot and run stable.

[Knife Party]

about 13 seconds to boot my ubuntu...and about 40 secs for my RTM vista

[betasp]

Are you counting POST time or not? If not, I have a Novell machine that boots to DOS in about 1.5 seconds after POST.

[Abhishek kapoor]

it took 15-20 sec on my desktop

and 1.30-2 min on my laptop ...don't know why it take so much i have minimum services started @ boot time

both have window XP SP2

10 seconds on my laptop

but how ..........

[Aquafox]

about 15-20 seconds in vista...:) no pw...so from cold boot to usable desktop...after green catapillar, pc speeds through vista orb animation, fades into "logging in" page and into desktop (fully loaded, no hdd activity) in about 4 secs...

this is on a C2D E6300, 1GB DDRII667, 775dual-VSTA, 2x SATA HDDs, 1x IDE...

[iZoom]

Now aquafox, I wonder how that can be...since each part of my rig is just step up from yours. Not saying mine is better overall, but the hardware would suggest an improvement.

E6400 vs E6300, 2GB DDRII800 vs DDRII667, 680i, 2x SATA HDD's as well...so why the difference in speed by 10+- seconds?

Also, as someone just said, I would rather have a longer boot time to guarantee safety checks and so on than lightning fast bootup.

[beanboy89]

I can't remember the exact boot time, but I remember I could boot Server 2003 x64 in ~45 seconds on my Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with 1 GB RAM. It was about a year and a half ago, so I can't remember for sure.

[aussiefloyd_fan]

on my +1year old lappy

turion tl52 dual core 1.6

2048 dual chan ram 333 mhz

4200rpm pata drive

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xp 1:10 vista64 :49secs

my 3 year old custom home built machine with 256 ram 40 hard drive and celeron 1.1

should i use a calander or a stopwatch?

actually it out beats my other system at 29..234 seconds

[Gamerhomie]

I just checked. 1 minute, 28 seconds on my laptop. This is timed from the moment I press the power button to the second IE is able to load up Google. Getting to the desktop takes about 1 minute and 5 seconds.

Vista x86 Home Premium Servce Pack 1. I reformatted about a week ago and have maybe 2 or 3 programs running on startup.

I always wondered, what determines how long a computer boots up? And how could I try to get it down. Even cutting it in half would be nice...

[Raa]

Record boot time was from Windows ME, under 20 seconds with a fast pc.

And who said new o/s' were going to improve boot times? Im glad that wasn't one of Vista's claims!!!

[napsterthe]

Well using windows vista on an medium spec laptop it was 33 seconds and i think that's alright :)

[Gamerhomie]

What are your specs napsterthe?

I got:

Dual Core 1.6 GHz

2 GB of RAM

160GB hardrive

Intel 945GM Express Chipset Family - Integrated

[Hani]

about 10 secs

[tpavra]

It takes 19 seconds for this computer to boot up Vista x64 and log in. It used to take XP about 1 minute to boot up on the same setup. :whistle:

[ViperAFK]

My vista x 64 boots in around 35 seconds.