ReBoot Time

mll7 said:

42 seconds, not bad for a laptop :) (Dell M1330)

indeed that is really good for a lappy!

Here's Mine.





First i have heard of this Bootrace so thought i would give it a try.

hicksrt said:

Not to bad for an 18 month old laptop =)

if your laptop has 2 hdd, i would be running them in raid 0 to get better performance (and not just for WEI) (if it supports it)

badlands sweden said:

ah, it feels nice...mine restarts in 218sec...I´m totally happy with my reboot time after upgrading my NEW computer. Luckily all other things with windows 7 is much better than vista.
And no, I have no idea whats wrong. And yes I have checked some of the tutorials to speed up my boot time.

hmmm so does it physically boot slow, like the program is saying, or does it boot fast and the program is showing some random time?

if it does boot slow, does your computer have all that HP bloat-ware installed? start-up programs play a big role in reboot times (as i discovered from a fresh install)

Interesting thread. That said, there are so many factors in rebooting...including what was happening in your last session, how many services you have running that must be shutdown, *how your BIOS is setup* (e.g., what self-tests it is performing at boot, is it scanning for the CD for boot, ...), how many services it is starting up.

The measure that I have used in the past is how long it takes from the moment the BIOS screen clears (i.e., BIOS tests are finished) until the moment I get a usable login screen. That was 17 seconds on my PC for 64 bit Win 7 Pro when I first installed the OS and it is up to 19 now after adding more software/services. Seems very good, but that same time measure was 10 seconds on a laptop that I had running Windows XP back in 2002. The good news is that when I login to win 7, I seem to get to a usable desktop much faster than I did with XP.

Either way, I have been happily surprised. I had heard that Win 7 boot time was glacial...and that does not seem to be the case for me at all...and I am not running raptors in RAID 0. :)