Windows 7 Boots In 11 Seconds

[pparks1]

Ok, I timed my work machine running Win7 64-bit this morning.

It's an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, on an Asus P5QL-Pro board, 4GB Corsair XMS2 ram, with a 500GB Western Digital Caviar BLUE hard drive. The box is set up as a triple boot of WinXP 32-bit, Win7 64-bit and Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit.

From the time I hit the power button, it takes my box about 23 seconds to get through the POST to my grub bootloader. Once I select Windows from Grub, it takes 3 more seconds to get to my Windows bootloader.

From the point that I click on Windows 7, it takes 16 seconds to bring me to the logon prompt and at the 24 second mark, I have typed in my password and have a desktop with no spinning blue circle.

Running the RestartTime.vbs file shows the following on the same machine:

That's not bad at all considering that I have an IDE DVD Burner on the box, so it has to initialize the Marvell IDE controller and I have a stand-alone Intel 10/100/1000GT NIC which initializes as well during the POST. Then, I have my password which takes me about 2 seconds to type in and mash enter.

 

[twinkyman90]

mine is only an amd athlon x2 dual core 6000 @ 3.0ghz with 4 gigs of 800mhz ddr2 and boots up including bios time in 27 seconds! Windows 7 PWNS!!

 

[7Dreams]

27 sec!

 

[dgwin7]

11 seconds ? pfffttt, I used have old computer called Commodore 64 is much quicker when you turn power on in the back of C-64.

Win 7 + Hot Rod PC = 11 sec

C-64 + Basic = 0.01 sec

Which one is faster ?

dg

 

[7Dreams]

11 seconds ? pfffttt, I used have old computer called Commodore 64 is much quicker when you turn power on in the back of C-64.

Win 7 + Hot Rod PC = 11 sec

C-64 + Basic = 0.01 sec

Which one is faster ?

dg

wtf

 

[Lordbob75]

11 seconds ? pfffttt, I used have old computer called Commodore 64 is much quicker when you turn power on in the back of C-64.

Win 7 + Hot Rod PC = 11 sec

C-64 + Basic = 0.01 sec

Which one is faster ?

dg

Well, you got me beat.

But can it play EVE?

:roflmao:

~Lordbob

 

[twinkyman90]

hahaha! go comodore 64!!!

 

[DrWho]

I was beginning to think I was the only one left alive that even remembered the C-64.:sarc:

That was my first home computer, back in (about) 1980.
Boot was done from the Kernel ROM chip and was indeed as fast as it took for the monitor to warm up to display the Basic (DOS) screen.

I really didn't like all the redundancy built into the Kernel, so I and a friend of mine RE-Wrote the kernel, taking out the tape routines and much of the file loading redundancy and I got it down to an acceptably fast machine. I burned my own custom kernel rom chips and sold them nation wide.

Even on my first PC, an IBM XT Clone, I fussed with the Bios rom to cut boot time.
I think I got that down to 5 sec's from power on to a DOS prompt on screen.
Ya gotta love those old PC's! Windows ruined the PC.

PS: I still have my modified C-64.

The Doctor

 

[7Dreams]

I was beginning to think I was the only one left alive that even remembered the C-64.:sarc:

That was my first home computer, back in (about) 1980.
Boot was done from the Kernel ROM chip and was indeed as fast as it took for the monitor to warm up to display the Basic (DOS) screen.

I really didn't like all the redundancy built into the Kernel, so I and a friend of mine RE-Wrote the kernel, taking out the tape routines and much of the file loading redundancy and I got it down to an acceptably fast machine. I burned my own custom kernel rom chips and sold them nation wide.

Even on my first PC, an IBM XT Clone, I fussed with the Bios rom to cut boot time.
I think I got that down to 5 sec's from power on to a DOS prompt on screen.
Ya gotta love those old PC's! Windows ruined the PC.

PS: I still have my modified C-64.

The Doctor

i wasnt alive when comodore 64 came out.

 

[Antman]

i wasnt alive when comodore 64 came out.

Or Windows 95.

 

[7Dreams]

i wasnt alive when comodore 64 came out.

Or Windows 95.

yay i was alive for windows 95! but when i was born windows 95 was 4 months old.

 

[Lordbob75]

I was born in '92 so.... yeah.

~Lordbob

 

[whs]

Given the SSD, you do not need much tweaking. I installed W7 on a 60GB OCZ Vertex SSD inside a box with an AMD 4800+ CPU - really no barnstormer. My boot time was 10 seconds. If you keep your SSD nicely trimmed, you will see marvels with W7. Calling up a program is faster than I can lift the finger from the mouse.
But W7 boots fast anyhow. On another system I run W7 in a vBox virtual partition. Boot time there is 33 seconds. My Vista host system (with a very big 60GB footprint though) needs 100 seconds.

 

[7Dreams]

woah

 

[Antman]

I was born in '92 so.... yeah.

~Lordbob

I have a comb I bought in '92.

I am currently booting 130 seconds. Five "drives" the BIOS sees, USB flash reader partially populated, two RAID controllers, JMicron init, (10 HDDs total) a boot menu @ 3 seconds. Whatever it is that Windows is doing.

 

[jfar]

I have a comb I bought in '92.

 

[DrWho]

When you don't know the past, you tend to repeat all the mistakes of the past.

Even today, the sound chip of the C-64 has not been duplicated.
The Commodore Amiga was used to compile all the music for the "Miami Vise" TV program. There was a lot of really neat stuff going on in those early days of home computing.
A young friend of mine, ran a Computer Bulletin Board (early version of a web site) on his C-64, with a 300 baud modem. That was pretty aggressive for a 14 yr old boy.

Everything today is so automated that it takes all the fun out of computing.

Doc B)

 

[Creer]

My Windows 7 boots in ~22sec:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbX-tqpaYO8"]YouTube - Windows 7 RC (7100) Boot time - 22sec![/ame]

I don't have ssd drive, only regular Caviar 640GB hard disk.

 

[grimreaper]

just like mine with 1TB too lol