Has anybody heard anything new on Instant Boot for Windows 7?
A mate of mine was telling me about it tonight as he has it on his ASRock Motherboard and it takes his PC about 4- 5 seconds to boot to the Desktop.
Is the ability to boot in such a short time a part of the BIOS or is it a small program that you install?
Looks like this is an ASRock feature. And it's been around since November 2008.
ASRock "4 second" Instant Boot for Windows | ZDNet
Other articles indicate it provides limited computer functionality. It still takes additional time for the computer to run a fully operational version of the operating system.
Instant boot works like this: the OS restarts to a fresh state, then enters sleep/hibernation. And it's certainly not instant when it wakes up, but it's faster than a cold boot. I prefer to stick with sleep for my laptops (and dekstops connected to an UPS) and standard hibernation for my desktops.
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