Post Your Start Up Time

Kornowski

Kornowski

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Ok, Thought I'd get a general idea of how long it takes different specs and OS' to start up.

I'm going to use XP to explain how to time:

Time it from after the BIOS, when the purple loading bar of XP first comes up.
Stop timing it when XP is loaded and you can use your computer, IE, All the programs on start up are loaded. etc

Here's mine:

XP Home SP2: 31 Seconds

Lets see what you guys get :)
 
When I press the power button it takes ~25 seconds to load into Windows, I don't have any programs on startup.

XP Home SP2: ~25 Seconds
 
On Vista it took me 23 seconds to start up i have a truck load of programs including Outlook starting up aswell.
Might be Vista is optimised? I am on Ultimate.
 
XP Home SP2 53 seconds (not a lot loading other than Outlook) :confused:

Edit: I bet it's Mcafee :mad:
 
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Xp pro sp2

took 33 seconds,And i dont think thats bad for my system.

i have loads of applications too.
 
my stupid computer takes like 35-40 secs..too many apps
and if i disturb the startup some programs may not respond
 
Because of my long startup time I delved a bit further. Here'a a tip that improved mine by 9 seconds :D

I went into Control Panel / Performance / Administrative Tools / Event Viewer and clicked on System. Their I saw 4 red crosses where the Service Control Manager couldn't start these services. Clicking on them for info I determined they were long gone (uninstalled)

Service Control Manager holds a database of installed items in the registry at this location

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

Lo and Behold the remnants were still in the database asking to be loaded but obviously couldn't find what it was looking for. A quick delete and reboot, looked at event viewer again and they were gone, no red crosses.

No time wasted looking for what didn't exist, and 9 secs faster :D

BACKUP REGISTRY FIRST
 
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disable some progs such as powerIso,quicktime,NOD32 splash,googletalk,adobe extended toolkit and some other bunch,

now its about 20-25 secs
 
After using AutoRuns to disable every program i had starting up from starting up except MSN, Vista SideBar and ObjectDock and by using the handy tip from TFT above i got my time down to 13 secs, man i must have alot tunning, but the extra 10 seconds dont bother me so i think ill reenable them all :)
 
DrCuddles said:
On Vista it took me 23 seconds to start up i have a truck load of programs including Outlook starting up aswell.
Might be Vista is optimised? I am on Ultimate.
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it kind of cheats, it preloads things in memory so yes you will see some faster load times, especially if you start up apps are MS apps.

My PC has about 15-20 second start time

My G4 MDD has about 15 sec start up time

My Macbook Pro booting OS X is about 10-12 seconds and shut down is about 5

My Macbook Pro running windows is about 13-15 seconds or so
 
1 Minute 31 Seconds from pressing start button.
(i dont seem to have this purple screen everyone talks about)

System:Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

IBM Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
2.79 GHz, 504 MB of RAM
 
My PC has about 15-20 second start time

My G4 MDD has about 15 sec start up time

My Macbook Pro booting OS X is about 10-12 seconds and shut down is about 5

My Macbook Pro running windows is about 13-15 seconds or so
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That's impressive!

(i dont seem to have this purple screen everyone talks about)
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Time it from when the XP loading bar comes up...
 
I run very minimal start up software. My linux machine actually sometimes boots slower since I have added services running at start up and global fstab mounting network shares..

OS X boots fast, but sometimes it takes a while to boot. Like I want to say once out of 25 boots it takes longer, but then again technology is never consistant so you would have to take averages. OS X shut down time is the fastest I have seen in an OS

I haven't timed my vista install, I can try that next week to see what it does

my specs on my vista/linux box at work are:

HP dx5150 business class tower
AMD 3400+ 64bit processor @ 2.0Ghz
2gig DDR 400 RAM
X600 PCI-e Radeon
2x 80gig SATA HDs @ 7200 RPM
OSes: Opensuse 10.2/XP Pro/Vista Business
 
My main system boots in about 32 seconds(not including AVG if it has to update) I really should clean up the startup folder. For some reason Activesync and nVidia's junk reappeared after I removed them...
 
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