Your fastest boot time

[Udedenkz]

29.9 seconds - HP Mini 311 + 1st gen SSD, Windows 7.

~15 seconds - Emachines (yr. 2004), n-lighted Windows XP

[Black Leopard]

Sabayon: 10s from selecting it in grub2 to fully loaded desktop (no disk access).

FreeDOS: 2s from selecting it in grub2 to "c:\" prompt.

[Master Shake]

20 seconds

[_neutrino Veteran]

Current system boot time on my computer is around 13-15 seconds From hitting the button to Desktop loaded.

[Wolfbane]

With a clean install: About 5-7 seconds to desktop

Now: 20-40 seconds to desktop

[TonyLock]

18 seconds on Windows Me!!!!

[tuckeratlarge]

to be honest, if it takes less than a minute - who gives a crap?

[unintentional]

I once got a boot in around 45 seconds when I wiped a laptop and stuck a fresh copy of Ubuntu on it.

I have a bunch of slow computers...

[qdave]

40 secs probably...win 7 on core i5.

[zulugod]

5 seconds

[micro]

12 seconds ubuntu on netbook

[laq3]

Haven't measured exactly, but I would say ~1-1.5 minutes.

Window x64, AMD 6000+, 2gb ram (need more :()

[Srugie Veteran]

Mine takes around 25 seconds or so.

[KamiQuazi]

Approx. 20 seconds to use Windows.

I have set Windows to use both cores and main boot drive is a Kingston SSD.

[Osarius]

:( Seeing all the fast times posted on here just makes me envious...

my best is 5 minutes.... it can take up to 15 minutes to fully reboot...

[Solid Knight]

Less than one second with some instant on devices.

[TCA]

10-15 seconds

[sbrads]

My Asus m/b's Phoenix BIOS takes 20 seconds before Win7.64 even starts to load on my XP/7 dual boot setup with 3.4GHz overclocked E7300 and Samsung F1 system hard drive. From then it's 30+ seconds to load everything up like Kaspersky IS and get network access, it seems to vary. Some defrag programs stretch this out to 60 seconds easy (plus the 20 secs BIOS) after they've "optimised" the system LOL, the best optimisation I've found is 7's own for bootup times, Microsoft's xbootmgr can get Win7 into it's 'as it should be' state in half hour or so, rather than waiting for Windows to do it over a period.

A fresh install with no AV software etc is quick, about 15 seconds (after my slow BIOS of course).

[thechronic]

Windows XP takes less than 20 Seconds, never timed it and i can't now since i removed it.

Windows 7 takes just under a minute due to the amount of junk on this machine.

[itsmevader]

I never counted it but it would be around 1 minute. my bootup sequence is

DVD ROM

HDD

Rest

[petrossa]

This script http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1828618/Restart-Time.vbs gives you a standardized startup-time in windows. I get around 100-120 seconds.

[sbrads]

This script http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1828618/Restart-Time.vbs gives you a standardized startup-time in windows. I get around 100-120 seconds.

That script is for a total restart time, as opposed to a start. I repeatedly get 60 seconds using that, and that includes my slow BIOS (see above post).

[Hot]

My Mac resumes from sleep in under 1 second. That's all I really care about.

[petrossa]

That script is for a total restart time, as opposed to a start.??I repeatedly get 60 seconds using that, and that includes my slow BIOS (see above post).

Then i am confused, what's 'start' time? till you see the dancing balls?

[vkavin]

Mine is 11 seconds. I am using Windows XP sp3