Your fastest boot time

[clhenry]

It was about 30 sec. But after adding sp3 its up to about 1 1/2 minutes.

[DJ-Light]

My vista x 64 boots in around 35 seconds.

How I check that?

[ViperAFK]

How I check that?

In the event viewer, go to Applications and Service Logs > Diagnostics-Performance

[Skulltrail-old]

30 seconds? I never noticed...

As long as it boots fine I'm good.

It shuts down in like 5 seconds flat though. :)

[HappyAndyK]

BootTimer is an handy utility to measure Boot Time, btw.

[Skulltrail-old]

As long as mine isn't above 1 minute then I don't really care, I usually leave my computer running 24/7 anyway.

[ViZioN]

My boot time is quite long on Vista, it slowed after I added 4GB of RAM, so I figure its SuperFetch at work. Computer is lightning fast after login so I don't really care if it takes longer to start

[tsupersonic]

My boot time is around 25-30 seconds on XP. Ubuntu boot time on the same machine, is about in the 1:00 - 1:10 range.

[Tech God]

my best was around 10 seconds, fresh xp install with Q6600 overclocked to 4.4 Ghz. XP loading bar went through like half way, i disabled all the ram checking and everything so the screen is only black for about 3 seconds before the bootscreen is up.

[aussiefloyd_fan]

33 seconds from pressing power button the dell splash screen... the press anykey to boot from cd then the full useable desktop

pentium 4 1.7 ghz 256 ram eide WESTERNDIGITAL 50 giga drive ati all in wonder 128 pro agp

[thebullet937]

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 3.2Ghz (400x8 @ 1.35v)

4GB OCZ Blade @ 800Mhz 4-4-4-15 2.2v

Super Talent 32GB SSD SATA 3.0GB/s

First boot in 3 Seconds on Windows XP Pro SP3

After Drivers 3.5 Seconds

With 5GB of Programs (some start-up) Less then 10 Seconds!

Hows that for speed? =]

[RoomKid]

15-20 seconds, using 4GB DDR3 and solid state hdd's.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 3.2Ghz (400x8 @ 1.35v)

4GB OCZ Blade @ 800Mhz 4-4-4-15 2.2v

Super Talent 32GB SSD SATA 3.0GB/s

First boot in 3 Seconds on Windows XP Pro SP3

After Drivers 3.5 Seconds

With 5GB of Programs (some start-up) Less then 10 Seconds!

Hows that for speed? =]

Whazza, lol thats sure something!

[Sh4dowFox]

It takes my comp to boot up from pressing the power button to desktop in about 15 seconds with Linux

[PyX]

It takes about a minute to boot in either OS X Snow Leopard or Windows 7 on my brand-new-and-still-shiny iMac 27". No matter what config or what OS I had in my entire life (Windows 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6), it has always taken about a minute, so God only knows what those people do to boot in 10-15 seconds :p The BIOS itself is about 15 seconds, and the EFI may be like 10 seconds...

My hypothesis is that they confuse "hibernation mode" and "shut down", which would make a lot of sense, because coming back from hibernation takes almost no time.

[radikaalis]

my record was 14 sec with XP :) (from XP logo to desktop)

[TCA]

about 30 secs

[Gh3ttoRoM3o]

Definitely envious, mines somewhere between a minute to a minute and a half, I typically go grab something from the kitchen while it boots. -.-

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Dell Mini10v, standard HDD (not SSD). From power to usable Windows 7 desktop (all calmed down, no disk access) in about 10 seconds.

[DDStriker]

Who cares?

Takes me about 25 seconds or so. :p

Kevin and most the others here :D

will have to measure my times all i know is the p4 with xp boots faster with i7 win 7 >_> (not really to do with the os just the time taken to actually boot the machine and start loading windows~)

[Astra.Xtreme]

Dell Mini10v, standard HDD (not SSD). From power to usable Windows 7 desktop (all calmed down, no disk access) in about 10 seconds.

Sorry, but I really really doubt that. Especially since it doesn't have an SSD.

[kad1r]

Core2Duo T5500, 2Gb DDR2 667Mhz

It takes about 30-35 sec.

[Skulltrail]

8 seconds on my HP Tablet running WinXP. (Y)

[dingl_]

figured i'd post this here

Acer Aspire 5630 3 year Old System Default OS Installed was: XP 2005 MCE 1.6 Core Duo Processor 1GB RAM 160 5400 EIDE

25s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUemDmOFcMg

[art Techo]

About 25 seconds, maybe a little more. Slow computer here, but I keep it running the best I can. :)

[John.D]

XP Pro SP3 - 12 secs. No AV program or firewall on it. This PC takes longer because of this solid colour background bug, (windows 7 - which has been installed, it didnt do a lot, and this 96 DPI bug). You have to request it, but I cant be stuffed trying to figure out what option to choose - 37 secs. 2.8 dual core