Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Boot Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Boot http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/boot Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/boot en Wed, 22 May 2013 06:06:36 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 06:06:36 GMT Rev9 11 1 25 Inside Windows 8: Chris Stevens - Boot Environment Chris Stevens is a software developer on the Windows kernel team working on the Windows boot environment. Windows 8 boots faster than any other version of Windows. Why? How?

Chris begins with the fundamentals (so, if you don't know anything about the boot process or what actually happens when an OS like Windows starts up, then you will after watching this...) and then digs into how the boot experience/environment/process was has evolved in Windows 8.

Tune in!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-Windows-8-Chris-Stevens-Boot-Environment Chris Stevens is a software developer on the Windows kernel team working on the Windows boot environment. Windows 8 boots faster than any other version of Windows. Why? How? Chris begins with the fundamentals (so, if you don't know anything about the boot process or what actually happens when an OS like Windows starts up, then you will after watching this...) and then digs into how the boot experience/environment/process was has evolved in Windows 8. Tune in! 2474 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-Windows-8-Chris-Stevens-Boot-Environment Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:02:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-Windows-8-Chris-Stevens-Boot-Environment Charles Charles 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-Windows-8-Chris-Stevens-Boot-Environment/RSS Architecture Kernel Operating System Boot Windows 8 WindowsContent Inside Windows 8 Designing PCs that boot faster than ever before This video shows you how to use Windows Startup settings to reboot your PC quickly into different modes. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/22/designing-for-pcs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before.aspx 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-PCs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before This video shows you how to use Windows Startup settings to reboot your PC quickly into different modes. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/22/designing-for-pcs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before.aspx  139 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-PCs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before Thu, 31 May 2012 17:00:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-PCs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before Roxanne Beaver Roxanne Beaver 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-PCs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before/rss Boot Windows 8 Designing a secure boot experience with modern firmware This video presentation discusses the secure boot policies for Windows 8.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-a-secure-boot-experience-with-modern-firmware This video presentation discusses the secure boot policies for Windows 8. 948 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-a-secure-boot-experience-with-modern-firmware Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:17:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-a-secure-boot-experience-with-modern-firmware Roxanne Beaver Roxanne Beaver 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-a-secure-boot-experience-with-modern-firmware/rss Boot Windows 8 Designing a simplified boot experience with modern firmware This video presentation discusses some of the problems with the boot experience today and compares it to the improvements available for the modern boot experience with Windows 8. With UEFI and Windows 8 customers can experience a much faster and improved startup and shutdown experience.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-a-simplified-boot-experience-with-modern-firmware This video presentation discusses some of the problems with the boot experience today and compares it to the improvements available for the modern boot experience with Windows 8. With UEFI and Windows 8 customers can experience a much faster and improved startup and shutdown experience. 438 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-a-simplified-boot-experience-with-modern-firmware Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:09:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-a-simplified-boot-experience-with-modern-firmware Roxanne Beaver Roxanne Beaver 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Designing-a-simplified-boot-experience-with-modern-firmware/rss Startups Startup shutdown Boot Windows 8 Delivering a secure and fast boot experience with UEFI This video discusses some of the key benefits to UEFI in Windows 8.

  • Listen to industry expert's views on UEFI and Windows 8.
  • Explore ideas for system and firmware design. 
  • Learn how you can benefit from UEFI.
]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Delivering-a-secure-and-fast-boot-experience-with-UEFI This video discusses some of the key benefits to UEFI in Windows 8. Listen to industry expert's views on UEFI and Windows 8. Explore ideas for system and firmware design.  Learn how you can benefit from UEFI. 374 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Delivering-a-secure-and-fast-boot-experience-with-UEFI Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:08:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Delivering-a-secure-and-fast-boot-experience-with-UEFI Roxanne Beaver Roxanne Beaver 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Delivering-a-secure-and-fast-boot-experience-with-UEFI/rss Boot Windows 8 System design for the Modern PC This video presentation focuses on how UEFI impacts system designers. It discusses how Windows 8 has two separate boot plans to choose from.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/System-design-for-the-Modern-PC This video presentation focuses on how UEFI impacts system designers. It discusses how Windows 8 has two separate boot plans to choose from. 488 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/System-design-for-the-Modern-PC Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:08:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/System-design-for-the-Modern-PC Roxanne Beaver Roxanne Beaver 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/System-design-for-the-Modern-PC/rss Devices Boot Windows 8 Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8 Fast Boot is even faster than you ever imagined. Watch this video to find out how fast! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Fast-Boot Fast Boot is even faster than you ever imagined. Watch this video to find out how fast! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx 40 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Fast-Boot Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:06:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Fast-Boot Roxanne Beaver Roxanne Beaver 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Fast-Boot/rss Boot Windows 8 Windows 7 vs Windows Vista Boot Times Recently, CNET ran an article claiming that Windows 7 boot times are actually slower than the boot times for Windows Vista. Not surprisingly, this shocked a lot of people who thought the opposite was true. Before taking that news as face value, though, lets examine the data. First of all, the source for the news is a little suspect: the company, Iolo, who provided the info, is known for its “System Mechanic” software. According to their website, System Mechanic is designed to boost Windows speeds up to 800%. Specifically, the software has a myriad of optimization tools for achieving better boot times. Perhaps a little conflict of interest there?

While I’m sure System Mechanic is a fine product, it’s odd that the only news about slower boot times in 7 comes from a company selling software designed to speed them up.

Meanwhile, several bloggers wrote of their skepticism surrounding Iolo’s claims. One, Andrew Thomas of TG Daily, even went so far as to run a few tests of his own. His findings, although entirely unscientific, showed his Windows 7 PC went from cold start to desktop in 50 seconds - not the minute, 34 seconds that Iolo said it would take.

Another site, ChannelWeb, ran a few tests too. They found that Windows 7 booted in 53 seconds – that is, until they installed System Mechanic. It then took 2 seconds longer.

BetaNews, not to be left out, tested their Windows 7 and Vista PCs by timing how long it took to go from black screen to login prompt. On Windows 7, the average was 24.14 seconds and on Windows Vista (on the exact same disk, exact same machine), the time was 36.262.

While all tests are somewhat subjective, it should definitely have you questioning the claims Iolo is making. Feel free to run a few experiments of your own and see for yourself.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Windows-7-vs-Windows-Vista-Boot-Times Recently, CNET ran an article claiming that Windows 7 boot times are actually slower than the boot times for Windows Vista. Not surprisingly, this shocked a lot of people who thought the opposite was true. Before taking that news as face value, though, lets examine the data. First of all, the source for the news is a little suspect: the company, Iolo, who provided the info, is known for its “System Mechanic” software. According to their website, System Mechanic is designed to boost Windows speeds up to 800%. Specifically, the software has a myriad of optimization tools for achieving better boot times. Perhaps a little conflict of interest there? While I’m sure System Mechanic is a fine product, it’s odd that the only news about slower boot times in 7 comes from a company selling software designed to speed them up. Meanwhile, several bloggers wrote of their skepticism surrounding Iolo’s claims. One, Andrew Thomas of TG Daily, even went so far as to run a few tests of his own. His findings, although entirely unscientific, showed his Windows 7 PC went from cold start to desktop in 50 seconds - not the minute, 34 seconds that Iolo said it would take. Another site, ChannelWeb, ran a few tests too. They found that Windows 7 booted in 53 seconds – that is, until they installed System Mechanic. It then took 2 seconds longer. BetaNews, not to be left out, tested their Windows 7 and Vista PCs by timing how long it took to go from black screen to login prompt. On Windows 7, the average was 24.14 seconds and on Windows Vista (on the exact same disk, exact same machine), the time was 36.262. While all tests are somewhat subjective, it should definitely have you questioning the claims Iolo is making. Feel free to run a few experiments of your own and see for yourself. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Windows-7-vs-Windows-Vista-Boot-Times Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:39:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Windows-7-vs-Windows-Vista-Boot-Times Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Windows-7-vs-Windows-Vista-Boot-Times/RSS Windows 7 Windows Vista Boot Booting Windows in 10 Seconds Flat At last week’s Intel Developer Forum, a company called Phoenix debuted new BIOS technology that allows Windows 7 to boot up from black screen to desktop in only 10 seconds. Called "Instant Boot BIOS," the Phoenix BIOS uses new UEFI technology to power on several system devices at once instead of one-by-one. It also runs only those processes that are necessary to hand control over from BIOS to OS.

According to Laptop, the company demoed the boot up process at the conference where they showed a 20-second boot on a retrofitted Dell Adamo as well as a 10-second boot on a Lenovo T400 with an SSD drive. The company’s Chief Scientist Steve Jones also produced a report from performance logging tool Microsoft Velocity that showed how the BIOS only took 1.37 seconds to hand over control to the OS. He said that future optimizations on netbooks could even lower that time.

Phoenix is currently offering the Instant Boot technology to its partners, but they are not revealing who has signed on to use the technology just yet.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Booting-Windows-in-10-Seconds-Flat At last week’s Intel Developer Forum, a company called Phoenix debuted new BIOS technology that allows Windows 7 to boot up from black screen to desktop in only 10 seconds. Called "Instant Boot BIOS," the Phoenix BIOS uses new UEFI technology to power on several system devices at once instead of one-by-one. It also runs only those processes that are necessary to hand control over from BIOS to OS. According to Laptop, the company demoed the boot up process at the conference where they showed a 20-second boot on a retrofitted Dell Adamo as well as a 10-second boot on a Lenovo T400 with an SSD drive. The company’s Chief Scientist Steve Jones also produced a report from performance logging tool Microsoft Velocity that showed how the BIOS only took 1.37 seconds to hand over control to the OS. He said that future optimizations on netbooks could even lower that time. Phoenix is currently offering the Instant Boot technology to its partners, but they are not revealing who has signed on to use the technology just yet. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Booting-Windows-in-10-Seconds-Flat Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Booting-Windows-in-10-Seconds-Flat Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Booting-Windows-in-10-Seconds-Flat/RSS Windows 7 Boot Lenovo PCs Boot to Windows 7 56% Faster than XP, Vista Lenovo, makers of the ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops, is claiming a significant improvement in the boot times of their new Windows 7 PCs. How significant? Up to 56% faster, the company reports. According to the press release, these enhancements are a part of a new feature called the “Lenovo Enhanced Experience,” which not only improves the boot up process, but also allows the system to shut down in as little as 5 seconds, too. In order to accomplish this feat, Lenovo says they’ve optimized “system files, processes and hardware settings.”

That sounds a little vague, to be honest, but ComputerWorld has more of the nitty-gritty details on exactly how this was accomplished. According to Howard Locker, director of new technology at Lenovo, the company took the following steps:

  • Fixed the drivers of onboard hardware components that were cumulatively causing massive delays. For instance, Lenovo discovered that a driver for a "popular wireless device" had been written to pass worst-condition certification specs and thus would grab 4MB of continuous memory from the system in 4KB chunks, Locker said. This added five seconds to the time it took for a PC to go to sleep. After getting the third-party vendor to fix the driver, Lenovo cut the driver's overhead to just 200 milliseconds.
  • Tweaked the BIOS phase of start-up to temporarily hide some devices from Windows 7, so that the operating system loads the drivers only after the boot is finished.
  • Tweaked Windows 7 to delay the loading of nonessential services and applications until after start-up. Those include automatic-updating apps for Adobe and Microsoft, or even Windows features. While users can try to fiddle with Windows themselves, Locker warned that do-it-yourselfers likely won't achieve the same improvements.
  • Rewrote its power manager to be easier to use. It also included an extra chip in its notebooks to more precisely measure the remaining battery life than Windows 7 can, and to help you make it last as long as possible.

However, analyst Jack Gold was cited in the same article as saying that while this work has led to improvements in the start up/shut down, other computer manufacturers including HP, Toshiba, and Dell had taken similar measures. In other words, it’s not clear that Lenovo has actually done more work or if they’re just marketing themselves better.

In any event, it’s the consumer who wins here. If indeed all major manufacturers have taken strides to address the lagging boot times in Windows, then all those new Windows 7 PCs are going to seem extra speedy, no matter which vendor you end up buying from.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Lenovo-PCs-Boot-to-Windows-7-56-Faster-than-XP-Vista Lenovo, makers of the ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops, is claiming a significant improvement in the boot times of their new Windows 7 PCs. How significant? Up to 56% faster, the company reports. According to the press release, these enhancements are a part of a new feature called the “Lenovo Enhanced Experience,” which not only improves the boot up process, but also allows the system to shut down in as little as 5 seconds, too. In order to accomplish this feat, Lenovo says they’ve optimized “system files, processes and hardware settings.” That sounds a little vague, to be honest, but ComputerWorld has more of the nitty-gritty details on exactly how this was accomplished. According to Howard Locker, director of new technology at Lenovo, the company took the following steps: Fixed the drivers of onboard hardware components that were cumulatively causing massive delays. For instance, Lenovo discovered that a driver for a "popular wireless device" had been written to pass worst-condition certification specs and thus would grab 4MB of continuous memory from the system in 4KB chunks, Locker said. This added five seconds to the time it took for a PC to go to sleep. After getting the third-party vendor to fix the driver, Lenovo cut the driver's overhead to just 200 milliseconds.Tweaked the BIOS phase of start-up to temporarily hide some devices from Windows 7, so that the operating system loads the drivers only after the boot is finished.Tweaked Windows 7 to delay the loading of nonessential services and applications until after start-up. Those include automatic-updating apps for Adobe and Microsoft, or even Windows features. While users can try to fiddle with Windows themselves, Locker warned that do-it-yourselfers likely won't achieve the same improvements. Rewrote its power manager to be easier to use. It also included an extra chip in its notebooks to more precisely measure the remaining battery life than Windows 7 can, and to help you make it la http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Lenovo-PCs-Boot-to-Windows-7-56-Faster-than-XP-Vista Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Lenovo-PCs-Boot-to-Windows-7-56-Faster-than-XP-Vista Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Lenovo-PCs-Boot-to-Windows-7-56-Faster-than-XP-Vista/RSS Lenovo Windows 7 Boot How To Speed Up Vista Boot Time on Dual-Core PCs Peter Provost posted a handy tip on his blog the other day that will be useful for anyone with a Vista computer that has a dual-core CPU. In Windows Vista, there’s a setting that lets you configure your PC to use both cores upon booting up (by default, it only uses one). You can change this setting in the System Configuration menu to get your PC to boot faster. Here’s how:

  1. Go to Start, type msconfig and hit [Enter]
  2. In the System Configuration Window, select the Boot tab
  3. Click on Advanced Options
  4. In the BOOT Advanced Options dialog, check the "Number of processors" check box, and choose 2 (or 4 if you have quad core) for the number of processors.
  5. Click OK twice

That’s it! Now your Vista PC will boot up using both CPUs!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/How-To-Speed-Up-Vista-Boot-Time-on-Dual-Core-PCs Peter Provost posted a handy tip on his blog the other day that will be useful for anyone with a Vista computer that has a dual-core CPU. In Windows Vista, there’s a setting that lets you configure your PC to use both cores upon booting up (by default, it only uses one). You can change this setting in the System Configuration menu to get your PC to boot faster. Here’s how: Go to Start, type msconfig and hit [Enter] In the System Configuration Window, select the Boot tab Click on Advanced Options In the BOOT Advanced Options dialog, check the "Number of processors" check box, and choose 2 (or 4 if you have quad core) for the number of processors. Click OK twice That’s it! Now your Vista PC will boot up using both CPUs! http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/How-To-Speed-Up-Vista-Boot-Time-on-Dual-Core-PCs Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:04:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/How-To-Speed-Up-Vista-Boot-Time-on-Dual-Core-PCs Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/How-To-Speed-Up-Vista-Boot-Time-on-Dual-Core-PCs/RSS Tips Vista Windows Vista CPU dual-core speed Boot