How Many Seconds Does It Take For Your Computer Boot Up?

2048Megabytes

2048Megabytes

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If anyone else wants to post this thread is for fun. How long does it take for your computer to do a cold boot (go from a powered off state to the login screen) without using hibernation mode?

It takes my system (the computer specifications are in my signature) approximately 38 seconds to go from an off state to the log in screen using Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

I know people with some super fast hardware are going to definitely beat my score. Post your score in this thread for fun.
 
2048Megabytes said:
If anyone else wants to post this thread is for fun. How long does it take for your computer to do a cold boot (go from a powered off state to the login screen) without using hibernation mode?

It takes my system (the computer specifications are in my signature) approximately 38 seconds to go from an off state to the log in screen using Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

I know people with some super fast hardware are going to definitely beat my score. Post your score in this thread for fun.
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I don't have a stopwatch of any sort, all digital and my cell phone doesn't have a timer. I would say however that mine boots very quickly with the Q6700 and 6 gigs or ram.

OT: My mom's Dell w/ 256mb of ram and XP Home Edition would take minutes from a cold boot until the startup apps were loaded.
 
my bios screen just take freaking long to load. plus i dual boot so it's even slower. i think it must take over a min for my com to boot.
c2q 6600
2gb RAM
vista ultimate sp1
 
Doesn't matter, I keep it in sleep when I'm not using, takes about 3 seconds to boot from sleep.
I would say that it takes about 30-40 seconds to cold boot.
 
mine takes too long, i spent 8rs defragging my c drive to no improvement, my scsi 15,000rpm drive will be installed soon-just getting round to it!

getting lazy
 



Forever :P E5200 @ 3.9GHz + 6GB ram, on a 1 week old Vista SP1 installation, lol. This is with 3 things on startup, tweaked services & Classic GUI
 
Interesting, I thought I would see some better cold boot up times than what I am seeing. It sounds like some of you need to do some serious hard drive defragmenting. You can also use the "MSCONFIG" command to unselect programs that are slowing down your startup after you log in.
 
I defrag all my drives weekly :)

I have a Logo screen that likes to sit around for around 10 seconds, then POST which takes another 5, then the bootloader, then around 15 seconds of windows loading bar, then around 5 seconds to get in to the desktop, and another 5 till that program loads.

I know thats 40 seconds :P lol

I'm going to do time it with a stopwatch now, and write down what happens at whattime :)
 
Wow.

Turn on - 0 Seconds
Logo Appears - 15 Seconds
POST Appears - 19 Seconds
Bootloader Appears - 26 Seconds
Windows Bar Appears - 29 Seconds
Windows Logo Appears - 70 Seconds
Welcome - Too fast to show
Desktop - 73 Seconds

At least its better than my time posted on XS, of over 100 Seconds!

Not really bothered about boot time, I never turn my system off. It's kept on during most power cuts with UPS, I leave it on when I go on holiday etcetc. Just restart when I need to lol.
 
Holy crap I just tried a Diagnositc Startup.... Disabled Logo post, (System still takes 15s to get display after pressing power. lol

Heres my new times

Turn on - 0 Seconds
POST - 15 Seconds
Bootloader - 25 Seconds
Windows Bar - 29 Seconds
Windows Logo - 69 Seconds
Desktop - 71 Seconds

I've been using Auslogics defrag... I'm gonna try see if windows things my drive is fragmented, should tell me how well the Auslogics software is doing its job... Then I'll try something like defraggler, or can someone suggest a better defrag program?

I'll defrag every drive, do a disk cleanup, cclean etc. See where I get :)

edit: Damn, 6GB of Hybernation files .!
3.8GB of Temp Files!
 
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44 from cold to login. It's my laptop:
C2D t5750 (2ghz)
Radeon HD3650
3gb ram
5400rpm HDD

I'm kind of surprised that with a 5400rpm drive I can beat some of you.
 
41 seconds to log-on screen in Windows 7.
another 25 seconds for control (open firefox) after password.
time taken with cell phone stop watch.

have not timed Windows XP,
 
last i checked, it takes my pc about 45 seconds to be useable on the desktop, not a bad time to me.

the problem, is that it takes three or four minutes to shut it down!
 
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