Speed booting

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:53 pm

Ok guys, let's hear what your boot speeds are in Win XP!

I've got mine down to 27 seconds after disabling a few un-needed services and using bootvis.

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:03 pm

Mines like a 1:30 cause I don't really care.

Post by **Agozer** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:07 pm

30-45 seconds I guess

Demios · Post by **Demios** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:42 pm

Wish I cared enough.

megamanzer0 · Post by **megamanzer0** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:40 am

Demios wrote:Wish I cared enough.

indeed
I'm pretty sure mine is less than 1 minute

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:42 am

yeah, the topic is lame

I was just trying to have some fun before this forum dies completely

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:09 am

from the second I press the power button:

20 seconds later the bios is done
35 seconds later the XP logon screen shows
30 seconds later the hour glass goes away and I consider it loaded up

so I'd say 1 minute and 28 seconds after I hit the power button it's fully usable.

it seems AVG takes a while to load...

Que · Post by **Que** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:15 am

my record is 23 seconds boot.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:22 am

it sounds to me like my boot time is 4-5 times longer than your guys's. I could say that my penis is 27 inches long, but that was just this one time when it got caught in my buddie's car door and he drove off, so it's not realistic.

yeah I have some old shit in my pc, but are you guys counting the bios in this time frame? are you counting the second the desktop shows up or when it's all settled down and ready? cause boot time is nothing to brag about, but it sounds like "eboot time" to me. get a stop watch and press the power button on your pc then wait for the hard drive light to stop blasting. that's boot time!

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:04 am

if I was inclined, I count from when I hit enter at the GRUB prompt, until all the icons stop loading on my sys tray.

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:28 am

phOnYmIkE wrote:from the second I press the power button:

20 seconds later the bios is done
35 seconds later the XP logon screen shows
30 seconds later the hour glass goes away and I consider it loaded up

so I'd say 1 minute and 28 seconds after I hit the power button it's fully usable.

it seems AVG takes a while to load...

bios: 14 seconds
windows logon screen: 1 minute 1 seconds.
fully booted: 1 minute 32 seconds.

Something that slows it down a lot is that when after the xp loading screen is done the screen goes blank and stays that way for maybe 40 seconds before the logon screen pops up and I have no idea what is causing it.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:41 am

maybe the settings to stop the kernel from being paged? or something?

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:11 pm

ca. 1:30 as well, 20s for the BIOS.

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:49 pm

franpa wrote:maybe the settings to stop the kernel from being paged? or something?

No. Since I got a new computer I had to reformat and didn't bother with these registry tweaks. All I've done now is to set the swapfile fixed at 2048Mb. so Its not that.. Could it be a driver for a USB device or sth? because I had the same porblem with my old pc too.

Que · Post by **Que** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:30 pm

4 seconds bios/escd/drive detection
3 seconds ata controller bios screen
12 seconds windows boot
4 seconds, hourglass cursor is gone, hard drives silent.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:16 pm

What's your specs? (and Windows version)

Que wrote:4 seconds bios/escd/drive detection
3 seconds ata controller bios screen
12 seconds windows ME boot
4 seconds, hourglass cursor is gone, hard drives silent.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:21 pm

My pc doesn't even boot at all. Need a new power supply, and my laptop has a key that sticks every once in a while, making the boot take a lot of time.

Yeah, I might need to give them some maintenance.