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

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• 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

 

[Brink]

Hum my Samsung is fast to password then it dies on the welcome screen the original run was 171 secs and now as in the pic

Don't know what the go is as I have all of Shawn's optimise things set up

As an afterthought my tester with an M4 is twice as fast as the Sandy Bridge - it has a Q9650 on an Intel DG43NB board 32bit 7 Home 4GB RAM whereas I have 16GB RAM in the SB.

Hello John,

You might check your startup programs to see if one may be causing a delay. You could test by temporarily disabling them in msconfig to see how your time changes, then enable them one by one and test after each one to see how it affects the time.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hum my Samsung is fast to password then it dies on the welcome screen the original run was 171 secs and now as in the pic

Don't know what the go is as I have all of Shawn's optimise things set up

As an afterthought my tester with an M4 is twice as fast as the Sandy Bridge - it has a Q9650 on an Intel DG43NB board 32bit 7 Home 4GB RAM whereas I have 16GB RAM in the SB.

Hello John,

You might check your startup programs to see if one may be causing a delay. You could test by temporarily disabling them in msconfig to see how your time changes, then enable them one by one and test after each one to see how it affects the time.

Thanks Shawn I'll do that although I am sure I have only my security and the OS plus a couple set in it.

I do have scan memory at start up on the tester - Comodo but I am sure the Kaspersky on my main machines only scan on demand, after updates (which only happens once it is booted to the password window) and on schedule (weekly) and usually on the same day well after I would have booted the machine up.

It maybe that Kaspersky is naturally longer winded than the Comodo I suppose because they are sort of similar in size apps.

 

[Vaolinx]

Just got 38 seconds!

 

[flyingeagle666]

Just got 25 seconds!

 

[suavedude]

At a previous post, I got 35 seconds...
...but after a thorough maintenance, Le voilà!

 

[ICIT2LOL]

At a previous post, I got 35 seconds...
...but after a thorough maintenance, Le voilà!

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Hello suave mate if you haven't got this on then it will save you a but more time in everything not just the boot. You will have to sacrifice transparency and some other bits but personally I would sooner have speed than the bling

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html?filter[2]=Performance Maintenance

 

[Pedroc1999]

Oh well.. Im ashamed....

112 Seconds

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Oh well.. Im ashamed....

112 Seconds

Nothing to be ashamed about pedroc mate just put in some more RAM the DDR2 stuff is not expensive The 1GB will be slowing you down mate.

Try this to it will speed up not just the boot either.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html?filter[2]=Performance Maintenance

you lose a bit of the "bling" but personally doesn't worry me

 

[Pedroc1999]

Thank you, i am planning on building a gaming rig but for not its just minor things, i am tired now so i will try tomorow, i have allready done most of these

 

[suavedude]

Hello suave mate if you haven't got this on then it will save you a but more time in everything not just the boot. You will have to sacrifice transparency and some other bits but personally I would sooner have speed than the bling

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html

Thanks for the heads-up. I actually use the thumbs preview when I work with several applications, comparing data real time.
Hence my reluctance to upgrade to Windows 8.

 

[liverpal]

how I could get the result showing? After finishing restart, it only shows text of vbs script by the notepad; no window of result!

 

[Brink]

Hello liverpal,

You may have an association issue. See if downloading and merging the .reg file for the listed VBS option in the tutorial below may help afterwards.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[liverpal]

Hello liverpal,

You may have an association issue. See if downloading and merging the .reg file for the listed VBS option in the tutorial below may help afterwards.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks a lot, it's solved!
And here is the result:

not so bad

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yep you can hasten that up too liverpal with Brinks tutorial on Optimising 7.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html?filter[2]=Performance Maintenance < enjoy

 

[PSCO2007]

Restart time

Good ideal Darkassain. Done.

Thank you,
Shawn

Shawn,

I used your program and it said 72 seconds.
When I physically timed it, it was 34 seconds - totally online.

Why the discrepancy?

Thanks,

Paul

 

[Brink]

Hello Paul,

The script measures the full restart time from the time you click on restart to the time Windows starts up. Is this what you measured?

 

[PSCO2007]

Hello Paul,

The script measures the full restart time from the time you click on restart to the time Windows starts up. Is this what you measured?

When I clicked "download". I didn't get any of your pics.
I just said Run and it restarted the computer and showed the time.

I simply measured ( on second restart, the time it took from boot to be online,

 

[Brink]

You may have double clicked and/or accidentally clicked on OK at step 4 without knowing it before it restarted the computer.

Ah, that explains the time difference you had then.

 

[PSCO2007]

You may have double clicked and/or accidentally clicked on OK at step 4 without knowing it before it restarted the computer.

That's the thing - there were NO steps ( as in your pics.)

It never gave me those options - I just was given the option RUN, and it restarted the comp.

Anyway, I am thrilled since getting the SSD and not having to wait more than 5 minutes when I had XP and regular HDD.

Thanks for your time.

Paul

 

[PSCO2007]

You may have double clicked and/or accidentally clicked on OK at step 4 without knowing it before it restarted the computer.

Ah, that explains the time difference you had then.

Okay, I missed the Properties and unblock steps.

Now, it says 52 secs!! Whew!