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From the welcome screen, about 25 seconds until ready to go. + ~7-8 progress bar thingys (in the boot screen)

Lol i get less i get like 2 bars thats it to bootup and like 10 seconds booting it up fully. (Well :p Did reinstall recently :p)

Intel P4 3.06Ghz HT

1GB Ram

  • 2 weeks later...

Officially 3:46 for me :)

Yes, thats 3 Minutes and 46 seconds...

I already have 45 seconds when the windows xp loading screen finishes...

Then the most of it comes from desktop lag....My network connections are what take so long, but even after they are loaded, it takes around 45 seconds to load the rest of it.

What makes your computer run better? (faster) i seem to have lag all the time...like opening notepad after being idle for about 3 hours takes around a minute...

I turn my on....get a drink, make a sandwich, turn on the tv, sometimes make a milkshake, and it still isnt ready :)

Haha so you manage to get a drink, drink it all, then make sandwich eat it with tv turned on, then make a milkshake drink it then it still isnt ready?

After about 15 minutes?

Hmmm phishy.

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I call BS. I'd love to see a video of that and then I will retract my statement, otherwise it stands.

Even my meager laptop with nothing on it more than maybe a few progs like Firefox and iTunes still takes 20 seconds to boot.

Desktop is around 35 seconds or so and I have no 3rd party apps loading and disable some services that I don't want to start either.

A thread like this should require or suggest posting a video to actually prove the statement, otherwise this is just hokey.

about 15-20 seconds in vista...:) no pw...so from cold boot to usable desktop...after green catapillar, pc speeds through vista orb animation, fades into "logging in" page and into desktop (fully loaded, no hdd activity) in about 4 secs...

this is on a C2D E6300, 1GB DDRII667, 775dual-VSTA, 2x SATA HDDs, 1x IDE...

Now aquafox, I wonder how that can be...since each part of my rig is just step up from yours. Not saying mine is better overall, but the hardware would suggest an improvement.

E6400 vs E6300, 2GB DDRII800 vs DDRII667, 680i, 2x SATA HDD's as well...so why the difference in speed by 10+- seconds?

Also, as someone just said, I would rather have a longer boot time to guarantee safety checks and so on than lightning fast bootup.

I can't remember the exact boot time, but I remember I could boot Server 2003 x64 in ~45 seconds on my Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with 1 GB RAM. It was about a year and a half ago, so I can't remember for sure.

on my +1year old lappy

turion tl52 dual core 1.6

2048 dual chan ram 333 mhz

4200rpm pata drive

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xp 1:10 vista64 :49secs

my 3 year old custom home built machine with 256 ram 40 hard drive and celeron 1.1

should i use a calander or a stopwatch?

actually it out beats my other system at 29..234 seconds

  • 2 weeks later...

I just checked. 1 minute, 28 seconds on my laptop. This is timed from the moment I press the power button to the second IE is able to load up Google. Getting to the desktop takes about 1 minute and 5 seconds.

Vista x86 Home Premium Servce Pack 1. I reformatted about a week ago and have maybe 2 or 3 programs running on startup.

I always wondered, what determines how long a computer boots up? And how could I try to get it down. Even cutting it in half would be nice...

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