Dazzla Veteran Posted April 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 27, 2002 3 second cold boot? :ponder: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconman Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Yep 3 Sec. and I have A Pentium 3 - 600mhz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted April 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 27, 2002 So from total power off, you press the power button and you are at the desktop at 3 seconds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconman Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted April 27, 2002 Administrators Share Posted April 27, 2002 bull**** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconman Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 And I care if you don't believe me???? :paranoid: It's a 3 sec start up as soon as i hit the power between that and login screen it's 3 sec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted April 27, 2002 Administrators Share Posted April 27, 2002 Originally posted by Dazzla So from total power off, you press the power button and you are at the desktop at 3 seconds? Dazzla said Desktop, not logon screen ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevember Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Using Pro, I have both home and pro on multiboot I only use Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 I'm for some reason not buying that computer can boot all the way to the desktop in 3 seconds from pressing the power button. I use Pro edition. And about the conversion tool, it is not recommended that you use that. That only changes registry settings and does not add functionality or speed gains to the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan000 Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 using pro and love it. wouldn't have it any other way. but even for those of you using HOME, hey, it's still better than Me. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samo123_uk Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 hay , is there a student version of XP Pro for sale in UK , if so how much and where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 i've got the professional version even though i dont use that bugged up POS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wog boy Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 i got xp home with my laptop..i *bought* xp pro..and its installed on my pc and my laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Originally posted by iconman Yep 3 Sec. and I have A Pentium 3 - 600mhz if its 3 secs to boot, xp normally i wonder how fast it is to get it from hibernation? what 1 sec? i know this place wants the proof, so go do a bootvis. and post (screen shot) your results. http://download.microsoft.com/download/whi...ootVis-Tool.exe Microsoft Windows XP Boot Visualization Tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huy Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 im on a pIII 550e mhz takes about 43secs from pushin power button to desktop (only norton antivirus 2002 pro loads at startup+background scanning etc) i dunno about 3 secs.. but i never tried that bootvis program, less than a minute is fine with me.. same thing on win2000.. a bit longer maybe 50 something secs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnifeFace Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 damn Home :disappoin 3sec start up. I believe you :cheeky: When I first installed XP (I have Athlo XP 1800+) it was 20sec to load. Nowadays, it more like 40s :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Mine xp home starts up in 16 secs. (from the push of the power button to the log on screen), when I first got it, it was like 8 secs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwndw Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 It will resume from Hibernation to Desktop in a little over 9 seconds, but a cold boot and not resuming from hibernate or standby, takes 22.45 seconds and the fastest it has ever booted up is 19.21, but adding NAV 2002 added over 3 seconds to boot time. I dual boot Win 2K Pro and XP pro and Win 2K loads in about 32 seconds give or take the half second it takes to push the down arrow and enter. 3 seconds for a "real" cold boot and not a resume from Hibernate is Bull**** and I would barely believe you could resume from Hibernate that fast. I will believe it when i see the bootvis graph that shows a 3 second boot. :paranoid: :ponder: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Otto Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 usin pro...its got all the same things as home and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted April 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 27, 2002 Originally posted by jwndw 3 seconds for a "real" cold boot and not a resume from Hibernate is Bull**** and I would barely believe you could resume from Hibernate that fast. I will believe it when i see the bootvis graph that shows a 3 second boot. :paranoid: :ponder: I'd like to see the graph as well. Little off topic here, but I can wake my mac up from sleep from less then 1 second, thats sweet. It goes off instantly and wakes up instantly. I think I'll stick to doing that cause the boot time is far off of teh 3 second record for XP :roll: ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deryck Posted April 28, 2002 Share Posted April 28, 2002 I first wanted the Home Edition because it was cheaper and I had Windows ME at the time, (I AM NEVER GOING BACK TO THAT PIECE OF BAD CODING AGAIN), when the launch date came, Thursday 25th October 2001 (one day after my birthday yeh!!!), I was short of cash and I attended the launch at Festival Hall in London where Steve ballmer was presenting it. As I came in, from waiting for over an hour because i came too early :D) I was given, as was everyone else who came in had, a bag which included a Microsoft Windows XP Professional 120 day evaluation CD. After the event had finished, I was tempted too try it so I came home and installed it over Microsoft Windows ME (at the time, I was afraid of formatting and I did not have time to back up everything) and it was great. I was forced to format since someone was trying to see if it will expire by pushing the date way past the 120 day expiration date, it expired but as least I backed up my work a week ago ;). I reinstalled it freshly choosing, FAT 32 (bad choice) and I left it at that. Later, as I had an ADSL internet connection, I had to change to NTFS and it went all slowly. When the expiration date came, I had to purcahse the Professional Edition since that I could not downgrade to Home Edition without formatting. I am now confident into formattiing now, if I have my work backed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samo123_uk Posted April 28, 2002 Share Posted April 28, 2002 Originally posted by Deryck When the expiration date came, I had to purcahse the Professional Edition You could've just formatted the HD and reinstalled you know! It resets the timer , so you could've bought it when u had the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KC Posted April 28, 2002 Share Posted April 28, 2002 I run XP Pro corp edition beats the snot out of any O.S. except that little thing called linux:) yet that is a diffrent story XP Home makes me feel :dead: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tai Posted April 28, 2002 Share Posted April 28, 2002 xp pro :D .. i used home version before, until someone here told me it sucked... :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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