I just want to know how fast your computers are. I use Windows 7 and my boot time is ~ 1:30. I want to decrease that because using Sleep brings so many problems.
After Sleep my Audio Device was not detected and I couldn't hear anything. I reinstalled the drivers and now it works even after Sleep. But then I observed that after Sleep I can't hear 5.1 sounds. Only my front speakers are working and I prefer to just Startup/Shutdown my computer.
These are just a few tweaks I tried to decrease my computer boot time:
- BIOS Quick Boot option (was already activated)
- Set Hard Drive as primary boot option
- No GUI boot in msconfig
- Enable Prefetcher only for boot files
- Delete programs for startup
- Delay the startup of necessary programs
If you know any other tweaks available just let us know 
On Linux Ubuntu 9.04 about 40 seconds, on Windows Vista about 2:30
It takes 32 seconds until my login manager displays and ~8 seconds to start up the rest after I log in. I'm using Arch Linux.
| Spiritfall wrote: |
I just want to know how fast your computers are. I use Windows 7 and my boot time is ~ 1:30. I want to decrease that because using Sleep brings so many problems.
After Sleep my Audio Device was not detected and I couldn't hear anything. I reinstalled the drivers and now it works even after Sleep. But then I observed that after Sleep I can't hear 5.1 sounds. Only my front speakers are working and I prefer to just Startup/Shutdown my computer.
These are just a few tweaks I tried to decrease my computer boot time:
- BIOS Quick Boot option (was already activated)
- Set Hard Drive as primary boot option
- No GUI boot in msconfig
- Enable Prefetcher only for boot files
- Delete programs for startup
- Delay the startup of necessary programs
If you know any other tweaks available just let us know |
There's something with the option of 1 2 3 in registry that stops programs from being added to the loadup cache when your computer starts. I forgot what it was though.10 seconds to Grub, from there, 24 seconds to login screen. Logging in takes just 3 seconds before the system is ready. This is Fedora 11, running on a Dell Dimension 8300 which is about 9 years old now I believe.
| Fire Boar wrote: |
| 10 seconds to Grub, from there, 24 seconds to login screen. Logging in takes just 3 seconds before the system is ready. This is Fedora 11, running on a Dell Dimension 8300 which is about 9 years old now I believe. |
I installed Fedora 11 but it had errors. I couldn't establish my PPPoE connection so I removed it. Fedora was my first Linux distro but now It has too many errors. 4 or 5 years ago there was Fedora Core 4 which I installed .. and then Fedora core 5 .. 6 .. I have them all `till Fedora 8 on dvd`s. Since Fedora 9 I installed them from a dvd-rw. Now I have installed FreeBSD 7.1 updated to 7.2 because 7.2 gave me errors when trying to boot after installation.3 or 4 minutes--don't care to time it--for Windows XP on my Dell Latitude with a 1.6GHz dual core processor and 3GB of RAM.
45 seconds on the same machine for Ubuntu 9.04. Yay Jaunty Jackalope!
15 seconds for BIOS, 30 seconds for vista.
around 2 a 3 min to start the computer 100%
my laptop is within 30 sec up and running 
I have a dual boot machine windows Seven and Ubuntu 9.04
power button to grub = 4 secs
grub to Windows Seven login 18 secs
grub to Ubuntu 11 secs
Bios to Windows XP login screen - around 2 min.
after logging in another 2 min.
It is a bit slow, but yeah, the PC is four years old.
<1 min... yeah, not the best but I'm satisfied with it.
I'm currently at about 40 secs with Windows 7, but I got a ton of hardware for the system to boot up.
I ran about 70 secs with Windows Vista.
About 30 seconds to the login screen, and then about 10 to 15 seconds on the first login. Ubuntu 9.04 on an Intel Core 2 Duo.
Windows7 25s to logon screen, ~5-10s to desktop.
15 s - Zenwalk I know about ideas to put linux loader to cmos
this way computer will start in 3-5 seconds | shuust wrote: |
I know about ideas to put linux loader to cmos
this way computer will start in 3-5 seconds |
Please share a link with the community Both my desktop (windows 7) and my laptop (Ubuntu 9.04) boot up in about a minute. This is fully right to the desktop with MSN to load on my desktop and dropbox to load on my laptop. I'm very happy with this speed.
Also, speaking of speed, according to a research center Windows 7 does NOT boot faster than Vista, and in several cases it slows down over time (as Windows tends to do). The article is found by clicking here. Upon login screen(default installation) NetBSD: 23 seconds
| Diablosblizz wrote: |
Both my desktop (windows 7) and my laptop (Ubuntu 9.04) boot up in about a minute. This is fully right to the desktop with MSN to load on my desktop and dropbox to load on my laptop. I'm very happy with this speed.
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My vista boots in about a minute and a half, and my ubuntu 9.04 boots in less than a minute. Vista takes 2 minutes to shut down. Ubuntu takes 5 seconds. lol.
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Also, speaking of speed, according to a research center Windows 7 does NOT boot faster than Vista, and in several cases it slows down over time (as Windows tends to do). The article is found by clicking here. |
Awww, i'm quite disappointed. One of the main attractive features of 7 to me was its fast boot time. But the article explained that the fast boot time is simply the time for the desktop to appear, not for it to finish booting. Ubuntu 9.10 promises fast booting speeds. I can't wait; not long to go now until it's released and finished.
Peace.Ubuntu ~45 sec. XP seems to be about a day and a half.
| loyal wrote: |
| My vista boots in about a minute and a half, and my ubuntu 9.04 boots in less than a minute. Vista takes 2 minutes to shut down. Ubuntu takes 5 seconds. lol. |
Is that on a desktop or laptop? My laptop takes maybe 10 seconds (Ubuntu) while Windows 7 could take 15 seconds or more. Personally, I don't care about my shutdown time that much as long as it does turn off. I haven't measured how long my machine to startup.
It may be take about 2mins to boot including exchange 2003.
But my machine was a very old one (PIII )
So, it must not very correct. | blueray wrote: |
I haven't measured how long my machine to startup.
It may be take about 2mins to boot including exchange 2003.
But my machine was a very old one (PIII )
So, it must not very correct. |
Could be correct, depends on what operating system you are running. | Diablosblizz wrote: |
| loyal wrote: | | My vista boots in about a minute and a half, and my ubuntu 9.04 boots in less than a minute. Vista takes 2 minutes to shut down. Ubuntu takes 5 seconds. lol. |
Is that on a desktop or laptop? My laptop takes maybe 10 seconds (Ubuntu) while Windows 7 could take 15 seconds or more. Personally, I don't care about my shutdown time that much as long as it does turn off. |
It's on my newish laptop. I like my OS to shut down fast. If windows doesn't do it fast, then I have to wait ages until it turns off and i can close the laptop lid. If I close during shutdown, windows hibernates the computer; when i next open the lid, the computer resumes shutting down.
Peace.my pc avarages at 1 min 30 sec. i have vista ultimate (32-bit) installed. this time is after i turned on dual-processor boot, turned down the delay from 30 secs to 5 secs, turned on no GUI boot, disabled unnecessary start-up programs and services
| riyadh wrote: |
| my pc avarages at 1 min 30 sec. i have vista ultimate (32-bit) installed. this time is after i turned on dual-processor boot, turned down the delay from 30 secs to 5 secs, turned on no GUI boot, disabled unnecessary start-up programs and services |
wow you must have a lot of programs running at startup.On my eeePC (the early one, 900 - with Celeron 900mhz..) it takes exactly 53s booting windows 7, but a slipstreamed version, may it affect the boot time (I'm sure it does 
) AMD Turion 64 2.0GHz 2.5GB RAM
Windows XP - 50 seconds
Ubuntu 8.10 - 60 seconds.
The time is from pressing the start button to the ready desktop with all services/processes loaded.
| JBotAlan wrote: |
3 or 4 minutes--don't care to time it--for Windows XP on my Dell Latitude with a 1.6GHz dual core processor and 3GB of RAM.
45 seconds on the same machine for Ubuntu 9.04. Yay Jaunty Jackalope! |
Bah, you don't have XP set up right and properly tweaked. You could argue that tweaking shouldn't be necessary, but for god's sake, 3 or 4 minutes with XP?! What crap are you trying to pull? Have a virus on your system? 80,000 startup items? Vista boots faster than that.
Anyways, seems linux does boot the fastest. Puppy Linux is about 20-30 seconds if I'm not mistaken, but its an extremely lightweight OS. | coreymanshack wrote: |
| blueray wrote: | I haven't measured how long my machine to startup.
It may be take about 2mins to boot including exchange 2003.
But my machine was a very old one (PIII )
So, it must not very correct. |
Could be correct, depends on what operating system you are running. |
I'am currently running Windows Server 2003 SP1. | blueray wrote: |
| coreymanshack wrote: | | blueray wrote: | I haven't measured how long my machine to startup.
It may be take about 2mins to boot including exchange 2003.
But my machine was a very old one (PIII )
So, it must not very correct. |
Could be correct, depends on what operating system you are running. |
I'am currently running Windows Server 2003 SP1. |
Well it sounds possible! | ProfessorY91 wrote: |
| JBotAlan wrote: | 3 or 4 minutes--don't care to time it--for Windows XP on my Dell Latitude with a 1.6GHz dual core processor and 3GB of RAM.
45 seconds on the same machine for Ubuntu 9.04. Yay Jaunty Jackalope! |
Bah, you don't have XP set up right and properly tweaked. You could argue that tweaking shouldn't be necessary, but for god's sake, 3 or 4 minutes with XP?! What crap are you trying to pull? Have a virus on your system? 80,000 startup items? Vista boots faster than that.
Anyways, seems linux does boot the fastest. Puppy Linux is about 20-30 seconds if I'm not mistaken, but its an extremely lightweight OS. |
It's just age - Windows XP does in fact deteriorate with age for whatever reason, booting up progressively slower and performing gradually worse as the years go by. Then when people are sick of their computer being so slow, they think they need to buy another one, forgetting how fast it was when they first got it and/or not realising that they could get it running like that again with a reinstall (which incidentally is the ONLY method for restoring all the speed you lost - cleanup only recoups a little bit of speed). | Fire Boar wrote: |
It's just age - Windows XP does in fact deteriorate with age for whatever reason, booting up progressively slower and performing gradually worse as the years go by. Then when people are sick of their computer being so slow, they think they need to buy another one, forgetting how fast it was when they first got it and/or not realising that they could get it running like that again with a reinstall (which incidentally is the ONLY method for restoring all the speed you lost - cleanup only recoups a little bit of speed). |
I think stripping down an Operating System such as Windows XP would keep it from slowing down. Of course, you accumulate services, startup items, and the part of the registry that deals with booting gets junked up. However, there are ways to preserve your speed.
What the University of MN does is uses Windows Steady State to keep the computer booting consistently. I've adapted the program Returnil to perform essentially the same task. It reverses any and all changes to the computer, including system changes.
The problem is that it gets annoying to disable when you really do want to install something...
I'm also pretty sure that there are numerous ways to periodically clean and restore your computer, if you want to spend the time on it, correct me if I'm wrong.[/url]
