Windows 7 boot-up time - what's yours? | The Perimeter

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I'm curious what your boot up times are running Windows 7... Who has the fastest? What is your boot time like for really old hardware?

For my ThinkPad W500 laptop using a 320 GB 7200 RPM SATA drive on Win7 RC booting via VHD, from (#1) hitting the power button to getting control-alt-delete prompt = 35 seconds. I also had to select my boot option, which I chose as soon as I saw the prompt. It is difficult to compare the speed between machines after the login prompt due to various reasons so we won't compare this - for me, within about 5 seconds I have access to my desktop while my programs are loading.

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I'm using a Thinkpad Z60t with 2G of RAM and a 80G HDD. When I first installed 7 RC1, I was quite impressed with boot time (didn't time it) but then I accepted some of the 'test' updates in late June and the next thing I know, it's 3 MINUTES before I get a CTRL-ALT-DEL screen to sign on and then another 2:45 (!) before I get to the desktop. 6 minute boots remind me of OS/2 version 1.0 ... WTH?!

I have not yet done a restore point retrieval hoping that there will be another update that addresses this but so far, no luck. Getting very close to either a restore point or a total reinstall. This makes me leary of the 'test' updates that are in the Windows Update hopper.

Cheers,

Chuck

ZvetcoBioMetric

On my big box, Core2duo, 8 GIG RAM, many other high-end features, I am running WinServer 2k8 R2, and use Win 7 from a VM, from the moment I click "power on" to C-A-D, its 29 seconds. Now I also am testing on older hardware, a Dell Optiplex GX240, P4 1.6, 384MB RAM, and a 5400 RPM HDD. This machine choked on XP, but ran it decently. Now, with Windows 7, it will go from "power on" to C-A-D in 54 seconds, thats amazing! Considering you had time to go get a cup of coffee and sit at the water cooler for a moment on your way back, when booting XP. Now on my laptop, which is Turion 64x2, 1024MB RAM, non-shared vid ram, 5400 RPM 100 GIG HDD, that was built for Windows Vista home premium, that took (from a fresh load of the OS) 75-110 seconds of total load to C-A-D screen. Im honestly in a state of Shock and Awe, as my Technet downloads are almost 50% the size of VISTA, 2.3 GIGS?? and VISTA ULT was pushing the max mark! It feels like a completely revamped reworked, cleaned up version of what Vista could have been, had it stayed in dev for 3 more years. Great job M$, Im glad you are actually listening to your users! Smiley