Hi everyone,

In Issue 24 of the mag we're trying to find out how long it takes your PC to startup, from when your first turn it on till you're able to open and use a program (such as Internet Explorer) without any stalling.

Does it take an eternity, or is it faster than a speeding bullet?

Tell us how fast your startup is and we'll publish the results in Issue 24 of Windows Vista: The Official Magazine.

Thanks,
Nick

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Nick Odantzis
Section Editor
Windows: The Official Magazine

I usually use sleep mode, wake-up is very speedy (usually)

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Regards

JimmyB




Keep the rubber side down

31-60 seconds

mine about 4 minutes or so

Depends! From Hibernate mode, about 3 mins. From Full Startup (boot) mode, about 4. I'll go and make a coffee while the computer wakes itself up and grabs any downloads it wants from MS Updates site, etc.

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Happy to be on an Island in the sun; just wish I could find one;-)

usually 2-3 minutes but I have a cooling fan connected to a USB port on the lappy and that slows it down so does the printer plugged into another USB port take them out and I can get it up and running in around 90 seconds 

Yes mine too around 2-3 mins

Since I was made aware of the BootTimer.exe from PlanetSoft.org I have been doing a little tweaking of my start-up applications and finally gotten a reasonably consistant Boot time of 90 sec. + or - a few seconds.  Previously I couldn't figure out where to begin and where to stop my timing.  This way the boot-timer does it for me.

Velocity computer Buck/PC

Operating System  
Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 (build 6001)

Processor a   Main Circuit Board b
2.80 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core;
128 kilobyte primary memory cache;
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache;  Mother Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2N32-SLI DELUXE 1.XX
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS M2N32-SLI DELUXE 04031 Velocity Micro Edition DC 04/03/2007
Drives   Memory Modules c,d
400.09 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
    (311.70 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space)
External hard drive for backup

LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1P ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Hitachi HDT725040VLA SCSI Disk Device (400.09 GB) -- drive 0

2046 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM_A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_B1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_A2' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM_B2' is Empty

 

 

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zbuckone...your Vista friend

For me it takes about 1 minute to go from being off to seing all the icons on the taskbar

My computer details:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz
Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Gaming graphics 2302 MB Total available graphics memory
Primary hard disk 192GB Free (233GB Total)
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate
System  
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  Manufacturer My self
  Model P5Q SE
  Total amount of system memory 3.00 GB RAM
  System type 32-bit operating system
  Number of processor cores 2
  64-bit capable Yes
 
Storage  
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  Total size of hard disk(s) 233 GB
  Disk partition (C:) 192 GB Free (233 GB Total)
  Media drive (D:) CD/DVD
 
Graphics  
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  Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
  Total available graphics memory 2302 MB
        Dedicated graphics memory 1024 MB
        Dedicated system memory 0 MB
        Shared system memory 1278 MB
  Display adapter driver version 7.15.11.7813
  Primary monitor resolution 1280x800
  DirectX version DirectX 10
 
Network  
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  Network Adapter Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller
  Network Adapter Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter

NickO:

Hi everyone,

In Issue 24 of the mag we're trying to find out how long it takes your PC to startup, from when your first turn it on till you're able to open and use a program (such as Internet Explorer) without any stalling.

Does it take an eternity, or is it faster than a speeding bullet?

Tell us how fast your startup is and we'll publish the results in Issue 24 of Windows Vista: The Official Magazine.

Thanks,
Nick

Proud to say that my Pc is like a steam train, although booting and loading, to accessing an app seems to be over a minute. I have a PC I built myself, with 8Gb DDR2 PC6400, 800Mhz RAM, IntelQ6600 not overclocked, N Vidia GT8800GTS, Vista rating @ 5.5. (RAM is the weak point here).  

Hi Guys,

P.O.S.T,  to opening an appication is over a minute, despite 8Gb RAM, Q6600, Asrock 1600FSB mainboard, N Vidia 8800GTS, Sata II HDD and a Vista rating of 5.6. (Custom PC).

 

Dillwad

All these posts claiming their pcs boot in less than a minute, I believe are wrong. I don't think a pc with any software (anti-spyware,anti-virus, or any other security programs) other than windows itself will boot from a powered off state to a usable state in less than a minute. Most won't even boot windows to a usable state from powered off in less than a minute.