Your fastest boot time

[wasabi]

I have a laptop + external keyboard

I spilt coffee, beer, rain and wine on my laptop

so

some keys are stuck (repetativly)

so

on reboot

1. i get a high piched rep beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

i have to press "z"( it s the only key working)

3. then iget the black screen with run in safe mode etc i have to arrow down to

start windows in last mode

it reboots

4. login (press "z" again) or else i cant type

5.type in password

6. xp interface loads

7. press "z" or else nothing functions

welcome to windows ;)

this is my pc and i am the creator of the Boot StartUp speed Guide in Guides section :laugh:

why do you think i have been so desperate on finding ways around

time to buy a new pc

(no haxor will ever crak this system-not even the CIa if tthey know the trikz :p

as for the time it takes to reboot i have no f*kn clue

[lieb39]

SO does no one using 2003 with active directory & DNS want to post?

20 secs mine using winXP SP2

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Well considering that 2003 is a server, people won't generally twaek the bootime. But for my 2003 server with DNS, AD, IIS, Exchange server, plus a bit more it takes about five minutes from the time i turn the thing on until its on the network (i don't have a screen on the server) but I never restart it...

My XP machine is about a minute to startup.. slow, but I don't care. I never restart it unless something is majorly wrong.

-lieb39

[Rockett15]

:shifty: My fastest time?

Turn on, run upstairs, open fridge and get beer, run back down.

And voil? it works! Magic!:pp

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Now that's what I call a timescale:pp

[Mr.Vorvii]

about 30 sec for me :laugh:

[Hani]

mine 20->25 secs

[PyX]

I know Norton apps take a long time to load, but even without it. My computer takes 40 seconds from when I push the button to when it gets into windows. Then another 25 seconds to load windows. It only takes around 5 seconds in the BIOS though, so I don't know... I have XP SP2 installed, most people say this does not help. My PC shuts down fast though. It takes about 10 seconds (it used to take 40 seconds) to shut down the whole thing.

[Reborn Stampede]

On a brand new format i do about 12 seconds.

[Xe|oN]

Well my Dual P3 933 with Windows Server 2003 takes like 5 minutes to boot up. Damn all those services! :p

Not like bootup times matter anyway. I mean I probably only boot up my machines a few times a year because they are always on anyway.

[Renshaw]

boot - 29secs

stand by - 17.5secs

hibernate - 15.5

Used Bootvis

And my pc not really top of range lol

? OS: (Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2 (5.1 - 2600)) ?

? Up: (9m 44s) ?

? CPU: (1 CPU - Intel Pentium 4, 1.89 GHz, L1: 8KB L2: 256KB (2% Load)) ?

? Mem: (Usage: 171/224MB (76.34%)) ?

? HD: (Total/Free: 35.31/24.44GB) ?

Yeah i did copy strigh from IRC

Edited November 12, 2004 by renshaw2k4

[Renshaw]

teehee it seems imposible for me to improve this time tryed all sorts.....yeap i had nothin better to doo

CPU - Intel Pentium 4, 1.89 GHz, L1: 8KB L2: 256KB

256 DDR-SDRAM (graphics steal 32MB)

[goheels681]

:argh: Average is about 2 and a half minutes

1.9Ghz P4

256MB RAM

XP Home, SP2

[TrevorB]

I have a bootup menu to select boot device, then i have a user logon screen. But my fastest is about 10-15 seconds. Average is 15-25 seconds (without menus)

P4 2.8 Ghz

512 RAM thinger

20 GB Win98 Hard drive

50 GB WinXP Hard drive

10 unallocated space/dell partion (is it worth keeping this?)

WinXP SP2, AVG Antivirus

Anything I can do to make it faster?

[goheels681]

I have a bootup menu to select boot device, then i have a user logon screen. But my fastest is about 10-15 seconds. Average is 15-25 seconds (without menus)

P4 2.8 Ghz

512 RAM thinger

20 GB Win98 Hard drive

50 GB WinXP Hard drive

10 unallocated space/dell partion (is it worth keeping this?)

WinXP SP2, AVG Antivirus

Anything I can do to make it faster?

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Why do you want it faster? I'd kill for 15-25 seconds!

[Ultra Frosty]

Using BootVis I get 21.94 seconds

2.66GHz P4 (533MHz Northwood)

512MB PC1066 RDRAM

Western Digital 120GB ATA/100 (2MB Buffer)

[SPARTANMercenarys]

Now for a change...Slowest boot time

3 hours 15 minutes 45 seconds on the crappiest machine man has ever built. i swear the processor must be made out of silicone instead of silicon like WTF DAMN YOU INTEL

[wutang01]

My computer takes about 45 seconds to startup.

The spex:

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3200+

M/B: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe

RAM: 1.0GB DDR400 Dual Channel

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 200GB 7200rpm

VID: GeForce 4 MX4000

I want to upgrade my Graphics Card to GeForce FX5900XT someday :/

[preducer]

15-20 secs

p4 2.4b

512mb ram

[+Warwagon MVC]

start->run, type: prefetch

prefetch folder opens.. delete everything inside this folder.. reboot and watch your windows fly :D:D:D:D (max of 3 seconds to welcome screen)

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or you could just turn off prefetch all together :yes:

[Porsche Design]

18 secs,

p4 2.4c HD 80gb 7200rpm

XP SP2 stripped personal version ( nlite, arround 300 megs iso)

tihs is timed from Power On computer to See full desktop with bars icons and the Pointer shows only the ARROW not the

Arrow+SandClock (loading things..)

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How?

What's "XP SP2 stripped personal version ( nlite, arround 300 megs iso)"

[D0401]

my p3 128mb ram beater of a machine boots windows xp pro in about 25secs

[DevilRed]

what can i use to time-it except with bootvis?

and are you timing from the moment you hit the power button?

[crossfire]

Mine takes about 1 minute, from the time I push the button to start the computer and the time windows is fully operational.

How the hell do you guys get 20 seconds? I mean, I have a high-end desktop system, yet I get one minute to start it.

My system is : Athlon XP 3000+, ATI Radeon 9800 PRO, 512 MB RAM, Motherboard A7N8X-X, nForce2 chipset, 200 GB hard drive, about 2 USB devices.

I have Norton antivirus 2005, catalyst 4.10 w/ control panel and some other drivers.

Is there any way I could get a 30 seconds boot time with this? :unsure:

Or do you guys even shut down the PC, or you use the hibernate mode or whatever it is called? (I remember using it like 1 time in my life! lol)

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When the windows screen shows up i count 7seconds..

(before it was 30seconds, when i had Norton Antivirus 2005 installed)

Norton is sooo slow and so ****** up, everyone thinks it's the best, but it's definitely NOT (same thing with McAfee)...

get yourself NOD32 (antivirus suite) and see how your system performs then ;)

you won't be dissapointed!

And run TuneXP (ULTRA FAST BOOT tweak)

:yes:

[SPARTANMercenarys]

sweet i got my laptop booted in 15 seconds

[Martyn]

I would try it but I cant be assed restarting. But I think it is about 30 seconds ish anyway!

[insanekiwi]

20-30 seconds at max.