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thanks everybody that replied. So it seems to me so far, that 30 seconds from start button to desktop is typical for an SSD.
I also used msconfig to disable a few start-up programs (I doubt that this is going to help much because an SSD can load programs in matter of seconds, I think, but correct me if I'm wrong) I also disabled GUI boot. I can't seem to disable the BIOS splash screen from the BIOS menu, as ADDRam suggested. I'm down to ~25 seconds. I don't know what more I can do. I'll look at those links some of you posted. But man, I was really hoping there was a magic way to achieve a 10-15 second boot time.
So it seems to me now the only way to SIGNIFICANTLY reduce my boot time is to upgrade to either windows 8.1 or 10 because those OSs have fast boot and hybrid shutdown, which can really reduce the boot time compared to a full shutdown and full start-up. Is this accurate? (i will certainly upgrade to windows 10 later on, but now - and I'm satisfied with windows 7, and the ONLY reason I would have upgraded to windows 8.1 is for that really fast boot time, which I should also get with windows 10, correct?),