Boot time

[echrada]

Although they haven’t set it as an official objective, it seems Microsoft have set an unofficial target of achieving a sub 15 seconds boot time with Windows 7. On the Windows 7 Engineering blog Michael Fortin stats that:

In the lab, a very good system is one that boots in under 15 seconds.

The fastest I’ve ever managed to get a Windows system to boot is just over a minute, so I’d be amazed if Microsoft do achieve a sub 15 second boot time for Windows 7. I don’t think they will be able to do this alone and will probably need hardware and software manufacturers to play ball.

Do you think it’s achievable?

 

[z3r010]

A sub 15 second boot time would be awesome, but I just cant see it being achievable out of the lab.

I may even consider shutting my PC down now and again with that sort of boot speed

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Maybe in the future but now; 15 seconds is too much to hope for!














Later Ted

 

[z3r010]

I wonder if this is achievable using SSD's

 

[Joe]

Less than 15 seconds, cold boot? Maybe if they use some kind of re-writable ram chip for the under the hood business at boot time. I'm sure PC's in the future will be faster than 15 seconds.

 

[z3r010]

Hmmm looks like they are looking at something for instant on as well - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10068080-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

 

[Joe]

Instant on is good.

Now if we could get the pc to anticipate what we were going to do/open/manage, that would be a trick

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello .Joe!

Isn't that where SuperFetch is headed?

Explore the features: SuperFetch











Later Ted

 

[skunksmash]

sub 15 sec boot....

maybe achievable with an SSD, a 10.000rpm 32mb SATA 2 RAPTOR, a highly OCed CPU (or a core I7 chip), super fast RAM, & W7 .......maybe ???

all less powerful rigs will never hit that target no matter how well the new OS is coded.

SK

 

[Lebon14]

A 15-sec boot would be awesome. I think we'll need Quad-Core to so or highly OC'ed Dual Cores.

 

[jfar]

Hi, I dont know if I should post my problem here, if I am in the wrong spot maybe someone will direct me to the right spot,anyway long story short the other day I could not get into windows ,I tried everything and in the end I stuck my windows cd in to see if it would fix it and lo and behold it did in a few mins ,prob was that it lost the default boot os anyway its fixed now but my os's are now called windows 7 and vista RECOVERED, ok I can live with that, but since the fix it is taking forever to boot into either system, so I ticked the box in the msconfig section[OS BOOT INFORMATION] to see what was happening, and after it loads the drivers it just seems to sit there for ages and then at the last min before it goes into windows screen I see a few lines like[ file system clean], as if it had being checking ALL my discs first before boot, might there be a TUT on how to stop what ever its doing that I can't find and if so if someone could show me the way that would be great THANKS.

 

[limneos]

If I understood well, you have enabled both detecthal and 2 CPUs in msconfig.

To fix that, boot from your Windows 7 DVD and select repair computer.
Then use the command prompt option under repair, to enter command prompt.

In command prompt, type:

bcdedit /deletevalue {default} numproc

...and reboot to see if its fixed. if this doesn't fix your problem, you can also try typing

bcdedit /deletevalue {default} detecthal

 

[jfar]

Hi thanks for reply I have the CPU box ticked for four[NUMBER OF PROCESSORS] and thats all,The box I ticked to see if I could see anything was ,MSCONFIG/BOOT/ OS BOOT INFORMATION at the bottom of the page ,it shows you what is booting but it is not very informative, so do you think I should still do as you said. THANKS

 

[danielinterius]

I have 37 sec boot time or 27 sec from the "system-beep-sound"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWAfe-3iis