Vista, what is your boot time? | The Coffeehouse

webmonkey
How am i supposed to code with theeeeeese ?

Just wondering if there is something very wrong with my system or if this is the norm with vista now, so what are your boot times and specs?

It took 3 mins 15 seconds to get to a stage where I could load notepad
It was 4 mins 53 seconds before I had things like the side bar and icons in the tray/taskbar.

I stopped timing at that point but it was another 30-60 seconds before I had a network connection and a minute or two before the disk stopped thrashing, although 5 mins later it is still very active.

I have an AMD Athlon X2 4200 (2.2ghz), 3gb ram, a 7200 rpm hdd.
My windows scores are:
CPU 5
Ram 5.9
Graphics 5.9
Gaming Graphics 5.8
HDD 5.7

SP1 and all updates are installed, stability is fine and once windows has finally loaded everything runs perfectly snappy, but boot time is taking the pish.

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

i every My PC

40 Sec MAX for Boot
18 sec. Hybernate resume
1-4 Sec. Sleep resume

PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

For my laptop about 2 minutes 20 to get to a point to launch VS, closer to 3:30 fot the side bar to be loaded

Shining Arcanine

I run Windows XP on both my laptop and desktop. I have not taken timings, but I believe that my laptop takes less than 10 seconds to boot to the login screen.

I have a Samsung 64GB SLC SSD. It is nice. Smiley

PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

In reply to Shining Arcanine

#Sep 11th, 2008 @ 1:25 PM

10 seconds is very good! I take 12 seconds to get through BIOS then about 25 to Ctrl-Alt-Del and then the rest to get to a point I can use it!

<5 seconds to get out of sleep and logged on though.

jamie

In reply to PerfectPhase

#Sep 11th, 2008 @ 1:44 PM

30 seconds or so. no biggie.

again - no prob with vistas booting time. fix the UI! Tongue Out

intelman

1 minute 33 seconds for me.

5.9 ratings all throughout. Startup items include Windows Defender, Windows Sidebar and some creative control app that goes with the X-FI card.

wisemx
Live it

Instantly: I power it up then go make some Espresso, when I come back it's loaded.

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

In reply to intelman

#Sep 11th, 2008 @ 1:56 PM

Well I recently reinstalled Vista (and got Vista installed in under 5 minutes!) and my boot time is under 30 seconds, with the 5 second OEM screen as well. So about 25-30 seconds.

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

In reply to intelman

#Sep 11th, 2008 @ 1:56 PM

you have a problem

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

Perhaps you can use the Windows Performance Toolkit tools from the latest Windows SDK to trace what is happening on bootup.

Another link on xperf

figuerres
???

what does your pc load on startup?
for example my system has:

Sql Server 2005
IIS 7
an automatic backup agent.
anti-virus
and some other stuff...

that slows down my boot time.
if I nuked all the startup stuff I'd boot way faster.

zian
Exploding heads since 1988

In reply to figuerres

#Sep 11th, 2008 @ 2:10 PM

Sun's Java Updater
Something for the sound in my laptop "dock"
Another bit of software for the built-in sound on the laptop
Creative's registry-fiddling stuff
Creative's volume control
Dell's QuickSet
Pidgin
RSS Bandit
Secunia PSI
A pile of shell extensions (7-ZIP and TortoiseSVN)
Bonjour Service from Apple
2 Creative Labs services
A service for the Cisco VPN
A Sigmatel service
Sidebar: Clock, CPU Meter

Edit: This is just stuff running under my user profile.

Now, for stuff running for everyone:
Adobe Reader Speed Launcher

magicalclick

I think for me, everything is under one minutes, from BIOS boot to load everything, like sidebar and mesh.

There is definitly something from. Are you buying Lenovel? I know all my co-works using Lenovel has snail boot time and shutdown time. Take about 30 minutes to restart. We have the same company software installed, but my dell boots up in 2 minuts.

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

It takes about 4 minutes on my HP tablet, Core 2 Duo Processor and 1 GB of RAM.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

About 30 seconds if my external Western Digital MyBook hard drive is not connected. About 3 minutes if it is connected. This is a known problem with that drive in combination with Vista.

My laptop resumes from hibernate in about 15 seconds. Never shut it down except for updates. Smiley

littleguru
<3 Seattle

I only reboot when updates got installed... and then I'm usually out to get someting to drink... don't know... it's weird.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to littleguru

#Sep 11th, 2008 @ 9:26 PM

To get from switch-on to 'Booting from Disk' message about 55 seconds (mainly raid array stuff, I think).
To get from 'Booting from Disk' to Vista Login screen - about 35 seconds.
From log-in screen to useable - about 30 seconds if I immediately login in, if I wait at login screen for a while, it only takes about 5 seconds to login.

The main delay in log-in seems to be USB devices (couple of thumb-drives, WiFi dongle, USB hard-drive for backups). If I leave the main login screen up for a whle, they all seem to load in the background so when I click my login icon it's only about 5 seconds.

I switch my PC off overnight (saves electricity), but like Littleguru I normally go get a drink while it's booting.

Herbie

webmonkey
How am i supposed to code with theeeeeese ?

In reply to Dr Herbie

#Sep 11th, 2008 @ 11:34 PM

Those of you with boot times under 2 mins, what specs do you have?

Have you turned off certain system services?

I've not got a lot loading up at start up, the usual anti virus, mesh, sidebar etc.
I don't even load messenger automatically, and I've disabled most of the auto updating rubbish like the java updater, quicktime etc.
I've got no USB devices connected.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to webmonkey

#Sep 12th, 2008 @ 2:51 AM

I have antivirus installed, but I switched off the 'active' mode as that slowed down my boot times considerably (scans all system files at boot).

That's all I've switched off.

Herbie

tfraser

In reply to webmonkey

#Sep 12th, 2008 @ 2:51 AM

I have a computer with similar Windows System Performance Rating scores to yours and my boot time from a complete shutdown is less than one minute (about 45 seconds to the logon screen).

I don't have SP1 installed and I only have about five additional application suites loaded. I have not altered the startup preferences of any applications or the system itself except for Windows Sidebar, which I have disabled entirely.

Do you still get slow boot times even after performing a clean installation of Windows? One thing I've noticed is that Windows Vista seems able to maintain the speed of a fresh install better than Windows XP.

spivonious

Just about a minute from power off to logged in and notepad opened. It's about 40 seconds to the log-in screen.

Coming back from sleep (S3) is about 2 seconds.

I don't use hibernate.

My system is Core 2 Duo E6600, 965 chipset, 2GB DDR2-800, boot drive is a 7200RPM SATA2 drive, swap file is on a 7200RPM 20GB ATA133 drive. I took out features I didn't need like Tablet PC stuff and turned off Windows Sidebar. Not running any virus protection since I have never had one in over 15 years.

My scores are 5.3, 5.9, 5.9, 5.9, and 5.7 from top to bottom.

webmonkey
How am i supposed to code with theeeeeese ?

In reply to tfraser

#Sep 12th, 2008 @ 4:29 AM

I've not reinstalled windows at all, I think it's been on about 12 - 18 months, but it does seem to have got a lot slower than I'd normally expect from the gradual decline of a windows installation, perhaps I'll have to go back to the windows 95 way of doing things and do a fresh install at least once a year.

Coming back from sleep is instant, the log in screen is up before my monitor has woken up so that's fine most of the day, but i'd still like to improve boot times.

Thanks herbie, I'll have a look at that, I've actually been tempted to just get rid of AV completely.

webmonkey
How am i supposed to code with theeeeeese ?

In reply to DCMonkey

#Sep 11th, 2008 @ 2:08 PM

Thanks, I will try those tools Smiley

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