Windows 7 boots slower than Vista, says study.

MrMephitis said:

Nope, and to be truthful as long as it boots in a reasonable time I don't care how long it takes, as one of the other crucial things I do when I turn on my PC is put the kettle on to make a cup of coffee.

+1 .. its Morning Thunder for me!!

I use sleep mode. Takes 2 seconds

The thing that will make a difference for the most part for me is when you need to restart the system more then once while in the middle of something like a clean install and getting things on all over again in a relatively shorter period of time. Most of the time once turned on it stays on right through until turned off.

You got that correct! Some here report seeing a full clean install in only 12 minutes. I still haven't out how they got the time down that far while the average is about 20min. compared to the older versions going back to 98 even taking 39-42min. on average there.

An upgrade repair install once everything was on took about 80min. on the system here when looking into that for the RCs when those were first out back in May. Once the retail Ultimate goes on after next week I'll be able to make some definite comparisons on the finished 7's actual time compared to the changes seen since the RC will still be running for some time on the second OS drive here.

Night Hawk said:

You got that correct! Some here report seeing a full clean install in only 12 minutes. I still haven't out how they got the time down that far while the average is about 20min. compared to the older versions going back to 98 even taking 39-42min. on average there.

An upgrade repair install once everything was on took about 80min. on the system here when looking into that for the RCs when those were first out back in May. Once the retail Ultimate goes on after next week I'll be able to make some definite comparisons on the finished 7's actual time compared to the changes seen since the RC will still be running for some time on the second OS drive here.

My install on my desktop was 12 minutes to desktop. Using a flash drive makes all the difference.

On to the topic, wtf is that guy booting that takes a 2:34? Maybe his software (weather bug) is having some sort of issue with Windows 7 and adversely affecting his numbers. Secondly study shows, and other similar bs, doesn't mean jack squat without real data to back it up. All he claimed was it's slower! Some idiot writer took the chance to get an article written without statistical information to back up his claims!

My name is Zooloo I claim Windows 7 boots faster than Vista, I will release more details Monday. This is according to my standard of when I feel the computer has booted. blah, get bent :P

The one thing without 98 being tried on the present system quite yet is the time factor seen when you have both XP and Vista alike on as well as 7. Surprizingly even on an older system when dual booting 98 with XP they both took about the same amount of time for a clean install there.