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Posted on 03-19-10 10:20:06 PM

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For my Windows 7 Pro box with its dual 2.7Ghz Athlon 64s and 4GB of RAM, about 48 seconds from power button to desktop, and maybe 5 more seconds until it becomes idle. Logging in actually seems to take more time than Windows starting up, despite the fact that I have zero startup items.

My 4-year-old MacBook Pro with a 2Ghz Core Duo and 2GB of RAM does not automatically log in, but the login window comes up after 31 seconds. It's always been 31 seconds with Snow Leopard and it's never deviated except after major OS updates when caches have had to be updated. With Leopard it took somewhat longer to boot though.

However I rarely shut either machine down, I just put them into sleep mode most of the time.

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Posted on 03-19-10 10:48:47 PM

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..Who turns off their computer? I play Progress Quest.

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Posted on 03-19-10 10:49:08 PM

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Me? Oh, about 13 seconds, give or take.

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Posted on 03-20-10 12:47:26 AM

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It takes about a maximum of five minutes, which sounds bad, but I don't really mind unless I need to get something done fast and now.

It's mainly all the processes that have to load, though the utility to turn some processes off doesn't seem to work on some processes, despite them not really being needed.

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Posted on 03-20-10 12:48:44 AM

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My computer only takes about 30 seconds to boot up. Much faster than my old one.

Of course, the C64 would boot up in like 3 seconds because the OS was located in ROM

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Posted on 03-20-10 12:52:23 AM (last edited by Schala at 03-19-10 09:52 PM)

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This computer takes about 30 seconds to boot up... although both of my Performa 575s are around the same time (one has 7.6.1 and the other 8.1), and the SE/30 is around 1 minute or so since the hard drive is older/the CPU is slower (but I'm swapping the 80MB one with a recycled 300MB one anyway =D).

Edit: Also, my HP Pavilion from 1998 is around 40 seconds from BIOS screen to Windows 98SE desktop.

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Posted on 03-20-10 01:06:21 AM

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At least the startup on this computer's no where near as bad or as painful as the startups near the end of our old computer's life. About 15 minutes, and sometimes it would crash. Pavilion 8240, I believe.

Yeah, this Dell was pretty much the best decision dad ever made.

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Posted on 03-20-10 01:09:00 AM

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My old school-issued laptop would always scan for the school wireless network on startup. If you were away from campus, it would spend about 5 minutes "Preparing network connections" and you couldn't bypass it.

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Posted on 03-20-10 02:41:56 AM

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About 30 seconds, give or take, and then maybe 30 more to finish starting programs and stuff. My laptop starts up in about the same time, except when it forgets to load the desktop and forces me to hard reboot.

My roommate has this awesome laptop with a special quick-boot feature. It starts up in like 3 seconds without loading the OS, letting him browse his email and photos without having to login. It's really snazzy.

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Posted on 03-20-10 02:43:58 AM

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How does that quick-boot work exactly?

I've had computers so full of crap that insists on loading at every startup that it would take forever from when I saw the Windows desktop to when I could actually use the computer. I wish there was a standardized way to take things out of the list of programs that run at each startup.

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Posted on 03-20-10 08:16:07 AM (last edited by Surlent at 03-20-10 05:17 AM)

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It skips the quick RAM-counting-up sequence and/or device listings, you technically could leave quick boot on. These tests aren't too reliable usually anyway if something like the RAM faills, but I have them enabled anyway.

Just remember that you have a little shorter time window to hit the BIOS entrance key.
My machine takes about 40-45 seconds to boot. One funny thing, it needed about 10 seconds longer, when I still had IDE Legacy mode enabled instead of AHCI (it has a regular SATA II drive). Thought it would take longer the other way around.
I was dumb enough NOT to change to AHCI before installing Windows 7. And as you expect, Windows would give you a blue screen if you just switch the setting inside the BIOS alone.
Just use the goold old registry value change of ONE digit, following reboot and going into the BIOS (changing from IDE to AHCI), worked flawlessy.

But since I have not that much (startup) applications installed on my machine, mainly the VMWare tray process, AntiVir, Bluetooth and Catalyst and only the most neccessary process load at start, it loads pretty quick.
Not that I care about boot time, if you turn on the computer once or twice per day.

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Posted on 03-20-10 12:13:05 PM

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My ASUS K70IO takes about 30 seconds on boot with Windows 7 installed.. though I made some small upgrades to the intel CPU and the 17.3" screen and the CPU upgrade was nescessary so I can use hardware virtualisation features of VirtualBox. I'm more than happy with the performance with my ASUS notebook PC and I haven't had one fault with this so far, compared to the bad luck I had with HP products in the past but everyones experience with a manufactorer is different.. still I just avoid HP when I can.

I disabled the homegroup related services and used 'resource hacker' to get rid of the folderband that sits underneath the breadcrumb/address bar so I have a somewhat leaner explorer window, I also got rid of libraries and simply just stuck a shortcut to the documents folder to the links section since that is the only folder I use personally anyways.

I will eventually prepare a screenshot of my desktop in the other thread to show my setup.

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Posted on 03-20-10 08:05:41 PM

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Originally posted by Terra
How does that quick-boot work exactly?

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Posted on 03-20-10 08:24:27 PM

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Originally posted by Terra
How does that quick-boot work exactly?

I've had computers so full of crap that insists on loading at every startup that it would take forever from when I saw the Windows desktop to when I could actually use the computer. I wish there was a standardized way to take things out of the list of programs that run at each startup.

Look up autoruns. Finds basically everything.

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Posted on 03-20-10 10:41:38 PM (last edited by paulguy at 03-20-10 07:48 PM)

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hmm, home PC about 5s at the BIOS screen, however long it takes me to press enter at the GRUB screen (2-5s usually), maybe 10-15s kernel/init whatever, 5-10 to login/startx, and probably another 2-5 for X/xfce to load. overall: 24-40s

This one I don't use as often and haven't timed, but it has a lot fewer services running, so it's actually not much longer than my more modern computer.

The iphone? hah Well, sometimes that'll be up in maybe a minute, but occasionally it'll take a good 3-5 minutes to boot.

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Posted on 03-22-10 02:46:57 PM

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	I used to never turn my tower off until I moved in to the house we're in. There wasn't a separate room to use for our computers so we had to put them in our bedroom. I couldn't sleep with them running all the time so we started turning them off every night. They would start up in about 45-60 seconds with Windows XP Pro. With a fresh install, it was only about 25-30. Now that we have laptops, they start up in about 15 seconds with Windows 7 Home Premium. They're pretty fast, 2.2ghz Core i5, 4gb DDR3 ram. Only bottleneck is 5400rpm hard drive but thats fine in a laptop. 7200rpm uses too much battery life. ____________________

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Posted on 03-22-10 05:45:47 PM

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Originally posted by paulguy
The iphone? hah Well, sometimes that'll be up in maybe a minute, but occasionally it'll take a good 3-5 minutes to boot.

Wow, I didn't know they took THAT long to boot up. That must be annoying.

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Posted on 03-22-10 07:13:20 PM

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You only need to restart it when the OS randomly gets slow or leaks a lot of memory. The really long bootups aren't too common, though, and probably related to some specific thing, like if it crashes, it probably does an fsck or something. It hasn't crashed in a while, though, surprisingly.

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Posted on 03-25-10 02:21:10 PM

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My desktop probably takes between 30 seconds and a minute to start up, but I don't really know since it's always running...

Same with my laptop (probably a bit slower), but resuming from sleep mode is nearly instantaneous, so I generally don't completely power it down either.

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