Restart Time

How to See What Your Windows Restart Time is​

   Information

This will show you how to see how long in seconds it takes your Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 PC to restart back to the desktop.

You can also view the startup logs in Event Viewer (C:\Windows\system32\eventvwr.msc) under Applications and Services Logs, Microsoft, Windows, Diagnostics-Performance, and Operational. The logs will be in the middle to show you what ran at startup, how long it took, and more.

   Note

Credit completely belongs to sidney1st for writing this VBS script.

   Tip

For fun, post your restart time at this link.

Here's How:1. Click on the download button below to download the Restart-Time.bat or Restart-Time.vbs file, and save it to your desktop.
Restart-Time.bat

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OR

Restart-Time.vbs

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2. Right click on the downloaded Restart-Time.bat or Restart-Time.vbs file, click on Properties, click on the General tab, click on the Unblock button to unblock the Restart-Time.vbs file. (see screenshots below)

NOTE: If you do not have a Unblock button, then it is already unblocked. Continue to step 3.


3. Run the Restart-Time.bat or Restart-Time.vbs file.

4. Click on OK to restart the computer. (see screenshot below)
WARNING: Close and save all windows first. This will immediately restart your computer.

5. When the computer finishes restarting, you will see your Windows restart time. Click on OK when done. (see screenshot below)

6. You can now delete the downloaded Restart-Time.bat or Restart-Time.vbs file if you like, or save it somewhere to use again later.


That's it,
Shawn

Related Tutorials

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• How to Speed Up the Shut Down Time in Windows 7 and Windows 8
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• How to Add "Restart" Computer to the Desktop Context Menu in Windows 7
• How to See System Uptime in Vista and Windows 7
• How to See System Uptime in Windows 8 and 8.1
• How to Find System Uptime in Windows 10
• How to Perform an Emergency Restart in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8

 

[ProsperousOne]

After the reboot, I dont' get the popup showing my restart time.

I get my login page, showing my login (as admin) and my other login (for my PostgreSQL)

Ah, fixed it. While I was making the tweaks it started working... just dunno which one it was .


53 seconds so far... not done tweaking though

Edit: had to disable the logon screens, so it goes directly to my desktop upon bootup...

Down to 43 seconds, but was hoping for under 15

 

[weazzor]

My pc restarts in 141 seconds.

 

[maciacia1]

msconfig update

Hello Daniel, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Thank you.

Now, 40 seconds.
YouTube - 40 seconds restart time with windows 7 x64 rc build 7100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWAfe-3iis

I've seen your vid i must say im impressed and jealous bit but if you go to start and type in 'msconfig' and run it go to second tab and click 'no gui boot' and change 30 seconds to 3.
Also go to advanced or something like that and select all cores to speed it up its just a minor windows mistake.That will speed it up even more.

 

[WindowsVienna]

thank you, very useful.

if my restart time is 62 sec, it's good?

 

[ZaLiTH]

thank you, very useful.

if my restart time is 62 sec, it's good?

If that's with normal mechanical drives (not SSD), a non-RAID setup, or standard speed CPU (not overclocked); then yeah, that's a pretty awesome score...

 

[danielinterius]

Hello Daniel, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Thank you.

Now, 40 seconds.
YouTube - 40 seconds restart time with windows 7 x64 rc build 7100

I've seen your vid i must say im impressed and jealous bit but if you go to start and type in 'msconfig' and run it go to second tab and click 'no gui boot' and change 30 seconds to 3.
Also go to advanced or something like that and select all cores to speed it up its just a minor windows mistake.That will speed it up even more.

I can assure you, that I have done everything possible, to get the absolutely lowest restart time.

 

[maciacia1]

well in that case sorry for interruption danielinterius

 

[arkhi]

second is not bad but first one ive done everything possible to slow it down and i guess thats a record

It's simple, really. Enter BIOS after restart. Go to bathroom. Have Lunch. Have snack. Watch TV. Stretch. Take a bath. Go out walk. Go back in. Exit BIOS. Voila, it'll be an awesome restart time

 

[danielinterius]

well in that case sorry for interruption danielinterius

Interuption?

What do you mean by that?

As far as I know, you have not interrupted me in any way?

 

[danielinterius]

Better results.

Now I tried the script with usb-functions disabled in bios.

38 sec.

 

[Dave76]

Hi all,

You should post your restart times here: ReBoot Time

This is just the tutorial on how to do it.

You can see a lot more posted, some are very fast...

 

[khalis]

Hello everyone

My score is 40sec.

 

[Tony2438]

Here you go

 

[Solarstarshines]

This can't possibly be right even though i changed the cpu and psu is this really accurate i mean it is fast but this fast ?

 

[Brink]

LOL, nice edit job there Tommy.

 

[Solarstarshines]

haha i could only wish i knew how to edit that portion and if you told me how belive me i would probally bs a few stats hahaha j/k

But seriously I am shocked ! this is beyond belivable for me and also my boot duration is short as well take a look also i am way overdue for a SSD It would probally exceed this if any with a SSD

 

[Brink]

I'm not sure why you would get a result like that. Maybe the OC'd CPU may have something to do with it??

 

[Solarstarshines]

I'm not sure why you would get a result like that. Maybe the OC'd CPU may have something to do with it??

That could be it i did bump it up to 3.7 stable could have went to 4ghz but im not trying to kill my system when i get a new mobo and ram i will probally clock that high

 

[WindowsStar]

Is there a way to make one of these just for boot up time?

Try this:

Restart-and-Boot-Time.vbs

On Error Resume Next
MsgA = "Please close all running applications and click on OK."
KeyA = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RestartTime\"
KeyB = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\RestartTime"
AppName = "Restart-and-Boot-Time"
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject ("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
PathFile = """" & WScript.ScriptFullName & """"
Result = WshShell.RegRead(KeyA & "Times")
If Result = "" then
   MsgResult = Msgbox (MsgA, vbOKCancel, AppName)
   If MsgResult = vbcancel then WScript.Quit
   WshShell.RegWrite KeyA & "Times", left(Time,8), "REG_SZ"
   WshShell.RegWrite KeyB, PathFile, "REG_SZ"
   WshShell.Run "cmd /c Shutdown -r -t 00", false, 0 
else
   For Each objOS in colOperatingSystems
      dtmBootup = objOS.LastBootUpTime
      dtmLastBootupTime = CDate(Mid(dtmBootup, 5, 2) & "/" & Mid(dtmBootup, 7, 2) & "/" & Left(dtmBootup, 4) & " " & Mid (dtmBootup, 9, 2) & ":" & Mid(dtmBootup, 11, 2) & ":" & Mid(dtmBootup, 13, 2))
      BootTime = DateDiff("s",dtmLastBootupTime,now)
   Next
   WshShell.RegDelete KeyA & "Times"
   WshShell.RegDelete KeyA
   WshShell.RegDelete KeyB
   TimeDiff = DateDiff("s",Result,left(Time,8))
   MsgBox "Your computer restarts in " & TimeDiff & " seconds and" & vbLF & "Boots in approximately " & BootTime & " seconds", VbInformation, AppName
End if

 

[element180]

I've been looking for something like this,thanks

79 seconds.I obviously still have some tweaking to do