steve jones Posted October 8, 2009 ID:139684 Share Posted October 8, 2009 I suppose I'm boasting but after some brilliant help on these forums I now have a clean laptop that boots up in 60 seconds dead. From what I've read that's pretty swift. Can anyone beat my time? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted October 8, 2009 Root Admin ID:139688 Share Posted October 8, 2009 60 seconds for a system that is not brand new and has probably many types of programs installed is good. Mine starts up in about 36 seconds from a power off, not a sleep or hibernate mode but it has very little software on it and used for testing mainly so I keep it lean and clean.Don't have the link but I hear that Microsoft has a custom build of Windows 7 on a laptop, I believe, in a lab that starts from cold off to desktop in 18 seconds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve jones Posted October 8, 2009 Author ID:139712 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Wow that's good! As you say, mine has a typical load of software and 1000's of pics, so I'm happy. I don't have a netbook, but am i right in thinking they boot up pdq? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted October 8, 2009 Root Admin ID:139714 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Not really. I bought one for my wife and it's a pig if you ask me. Under powered and slow overall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted October 8, 2009 ID:139815 Share Posted October 8, 2009 after some great help from Exile , about two minutes at most. I haven't actually timed it, though, maybe I should. I will and I'll post back tonight! If my AV is updating as its starting up though, it will take longer, which is really annoying sometimes :/ lolIt was like 5 minutes or so before he helped me... ech. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
srtools1980y Posted October 8, 2009 ID:139854 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Here it is 80 sec. for desktop & 60 sec. for laptop.In systray I keep only security softs & C partition will always have about 75% freespace. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAM Posted October 8, 2009 ID:139864 Share Posted October 8, 2009 By me i think 2, no 4 Minutes, to boot up my System Startup, KAV, Superantispyware, and others....MAM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yardbird Posted October 8, 2009 ID:139871 Share Posted October 8, 2009 from a cold start, 60 sec. max. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpy Posted October 8, 2009 ID:139877 Share Posted October 8, 2009 I would say 60-90 seconds but I do probably have alot of things that start up that should stop but i'm too lazy and noobish to Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swagger Posted October 8, 2009 ID:139967 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Roughly 37 seconds for my Windows 7 laptop to boot. And that's with me having to manually select Windows 7 at the boot loader screen. My desktop is probably not far behind. I would say 45-50 secs. I'm interested to see how fast exile's is because he keeps everything disabled at boot, including his network adapters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve jones Posted October 9, 2009 Author ID:140190 Share Posted October 9, 2009 So it seems like a bit of housework can get you a PC that starts in around a minute or less - compared with my wife's (which takes minutes cos the children are forever downloading smileys etc ). It's amazing what we accept though - if you had to turn your car's ignition key then wait a couple of minutes before moving off, it wouldn't feel like a good car! Good ol' Bill Gates eh? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny1 Posted October 9, 2009 ID:140249 Share Posted October 9, 2009 So it seems like a bit of housework can get you a PC that starts in around a minute or less - compared with my wife's (which takes minutes cos the children are forever downloading smileys etc ). It's amazing what we accept though - if you had to turn your car's ignition key then wait a couple of minutes before moving off, it wouldn't feel like a good car! Good ol' Bill Gates eh? You haven't driven a car on a February winter's day in Winnipeg have you? Good ol' Mother Nature eh! My Windows 7 system boots up much faster than my XP Pro system and I haven't bothered to time it as by the time I go to boot the XP Pro system and come back its ready and waiting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted October 9, 2009 ID:140254 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Mine takes somewhere between 1-1 1/2 minutes to start up, primarily due to my bios which has a seperate loading screen that takes forever for the IDE/Raid chip on the motherboard to detect the IDE drives I have installed, although my primary drive is a SATA 10k Raptor . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve jones Posted October 9, 2009 Author ID:140262 Share Posted October 9, 2009 lol YoKenny1! You are right there. In the UK, an inch of snow brings us all to a stop... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sho-dan Posted October 9, 2009 ID:140310 Share Posted October 9, 2009 As long my computer boots up, I'm happy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
srtools1980y Posted October 9, 2009 ID:140318 Share Posted October 9, 2009 As long my computer boots up, I'm happy.Vexed but true statement! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catscomputer Posted October 11, 2009 ID:141161 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I thought my computer was fast, until I read this thread! I guess I'm comparing it with the old dunger I used to have that took flippping ages, and our work machines which are out of the ark and aren't any better. Paint dries faster than they boot up.Mine takes 55 secs from pressing "on" to the login/password page, and then another 15 secs for the desktop to appear after that, and a further 60 secs before all the taskbar icons and the vista side bar have fully loaded.... 2mins & 10 secs in total.I'm also of the "as long as the thing DOES boot up" mindset. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted October 11, 2009 ID:141193 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Well, if you're on Vista be sure not to disable the ReadyBoost service, even if you never use ReadyBoost, because part of its function, aside from allowing flash memory to be used as a swap file for ram (similar to the paging file on your hard drive, but faster), it also optimizes your boot speed over time in much the same way that SuperFetch optimizes ram usage by preloading your most commonly used applications into memory, while still allowing the cached memory to be reallocated should you execute a ram intensive program that needs the memory being cached. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catscomputer Posted October 11, 2009 ID:141201 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Is this reply for me exile? Yep I have vista, but I haven't touched anything called ReadyBoost. This is the first time I've heard the term and I wouldn't know where to find it... is it enabled by default? If it is then I should be all good. Never heard of SuperFetch either. I do do disk cleans rather obsessively (just the one found in system tools), but I'm not sure if that would have any effect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted October 11, 2009 ID:141204 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Yes, it's enabled by default . Many people disable it thinking that fewer services running will always = faster PC performance, but in this case it's certainly not true, I tested it myself on my own system.Running disk cleanups would do no harm to it whatsoever . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catscomputer Posted October 11, 2009 ID:141210 Share Posted October 11, 2009 @ exileAh OK. Mine will be on then I should think. These are the specs of my machine: HP dv700 Notebook, 160GB HD with 77GB free space, 2GB RAM, AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-62 2.10GHz. Not sure if that would cast any light on it? Or maybe it's my A/S or A/V holding up the works.I'm not too worried. As I said, it's Grease Lightning compared to the insufferable relics I use at work (five to ten minutes is normal for those!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted October 11, 2009 ID:141212 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Your CPU is the biggest bottleneck, Turions aren't the best for speed, but they are generally less expensive than Core 2 Duos. I don't know how long you've had it, but it will speed up over time compared to when you bought it due to Vista's nature. It usually takes a few weeks or so. You can also perform a boot defrag as it is sometimes helpful, but if you leave the PC running idle long enough Vista will do it automatically anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted October 11, 2009 Root Admin ID:141214 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I think you need THIS one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catscomputer Posted October 11, 2009 ID:141215 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I've had it since July 2008. I suspect it might be slower than when I first got it, but I could be wrong (I have more applications and files than then though). Yup, I do a defrag every week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted October 11, 2009 ID:141216 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I think you need THIS one.I'm pretty sure you can't find those in laptops .edit: a defrag and a boot defrag are 2 very different things . One defrags your files, the other moves and defrags the files loaded when your computer boots so that they can be read more quickly, thus improving boot times . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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