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57 seconds. The HP rig: I have 76 tasks running (including Firefox), two AV (Ad-Aware & AVG). Also the hard drive is only 5,400 RPM, it's a WD "Green" drive with AMD RAIDXpert. It has a RAID and config time of about 5-8 seconds after post.
Last edited by Rhammstein; 19 Aug 2010 at 11:09.
I'm finding it is pretty easy to manipulate your startup time. Normally with all USB items connected (one hard drive and two printers) my startup time is around 50 seconds. Just by disconnecting the hard drive and the two printers my startup time declines to 34 seconds.
Most of the really fast startup times posted here are probably done with a minimal set of peripheral hardware attached and most startup items disabled. I managed to get a 3 year old dell (2 GHz Core 2, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB velociraptor) to reboot 7 ultimate in 40 seconds or less consistently even though it's a much slower machine overall than any new computer available today. If you want to get a good accurate comparison between machines, disable everything in the startup tab of msconfig, clean all the temp files and defrag first