Boot Up Times - Lets See

Goten

Banned
I am making this thread to see people's boot up times on different OSs and their pc configs. We will be discussing about boot up times for the moment you press the power button to the moment you pc usage is 1% or may be fluctuating to 2%. You can check that in Windows Task Manager/Performance.

So we will be discussing and helping each other to make our computers a nicer place to login to.

My Os - Xp Sp2
Proc - Intel centrino duo 1.73
Ram - 1gb ddr2 667
Hdd - 5400rpm Seagate
AV - Avast 6 Free Edition
So All i need to do now is restart. And please record ur time untill ur proc show 0% usage and its stable there.

52seconds

Peace~~~!
 
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ico

Super Moderator
Staff member
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66 Ghz, 1GB RAM, 120GB 5400 rpm Hard Disk.

Arch Linux: 22 seconds
Windows 7: 1 minute 30 seconds
 
OP
Goten

Goten

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Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66 Ghz, 1GB RAM, 120GB 5400 rpm Hard Disk.

Arch Linux: 22 seconds
Windows 7: 1 minute 30 seconds

Sweetness with Arch linux.....I dont have space to install or download anything :(......You have got decent performance with 7 too....Whats ur Antivirus by the way.

Also...is there anything unique you do to make ur startups faster except msconfig.

Peace~~~!
 

Zangetsu

I am the master of my Fate.
So All i need to do now is restart. And please record ur time untill ur proc show 0% usage and its stable there.

u mean after the desktop shows check the CPU usage in Task Manager upto
1% or 0% then press stop timer....:))
 

thetechfreak

Legend Never Ends
Intel Celeron 2.4 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hdd @7200 RPM

OS-Windows 7
Time- Exact 60 seconds


I also have Windows XP. Will post its results later.
 
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Goten

Goten

Banned
Avira AntiVir.


Nothing much. Avira is perhaps the only thing which loads at start-up.

Yeah 3 years back I was using AVG which by the way crashed everytime i inserted a worm ridden pendrive....So i switched to Avira Antivir which was ok and i used it for a year with only 1 xp reinstallation but i did find it crashing too with pendrives injecting in worms. So switched to Avast and have been using it for 2 years with only 1 mysterious reinstallation. It crashed a few days back mysteriously and I dont know the reason as my drunk friends dont want to tell me the reason why it did. I think they were watching some weird pornography online and later when i switched up it in the morning i just saw a blue screen. So hail Avast because its AVAST 6 with sandbox and free and it is so pir*cy compatible(Does not delete keygens or cracked files[sweetness])...happiness in sadness.

Yeah i have many things opening up when windows boot up...I am sure i can do bootup in 35secs. If i remove Hp wireless assistant, bluetooth, hamachi, panda usb vaccine, razer deathadder driver.

Peace~~~!

Peace out~~~!
 

Vyom

The Power of x480
Staff member
Admin
Wow... Recording boot times! What an idea sirji :p

Will record and tell my times at evening. Replying to this thread to get subscribed :oops:
 
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Goten

Goten

Banned
Intel Celeron 2.4 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hdd @7200 RPM

OS-Windows 7
Time- Exact 60 seconds


I also have Windows XP. Will post its results later.

Nice....Yeah lets see what with ur windows xp......Intel celeron 2.4...Is it even dual core.

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u mean after the desktop shows check the CPU usage in Task Manager upto
1% or 0% then press stop timer....:))

Yes sir I mean exactly that..

Peace~~~!

---------- Post added at 10:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:45 AM ----------

Wow... Recording boot times! What an idea sirji :p

Will record and tell my times at evening. Replying to this thread to get subscribed :oops:

You look quite enthusiastic....I hope u do under 2minutes....Oooo.

Peace~~~!
 

thetechfreak

Legend Never Ends
not dual core.
I overclocked it 600 mhz from 1.8 ghz to 2.4 ghz

---------- Post added at 11:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:04 AM ----------

Windows XP result- Service pack 3-

50 seconds.


Tune up Utilities 2011 bloats startup. Its not there in Windows 7 though.
 
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Goten

Goten

Banned
not dual core.
I overclocked it 600 mhz from 1.8 ghz to 2.4 ghz

---------- Post added at 11:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:04 AM ----------

Windows XP result- Service pack 3-

50 seconds.


Tune up Utilities 2011 bloats startup. Its not there in Windows 7 though.

You overclocked a laptop????

Peace~~~!
 

desiibond

Bond, Desi Bond!
My Os - Ubuntu 10.10
Proc - AMD 7750 BE
Ram - 4Gb DDR2 800MHz
Hdd - 7200rpm Seagate

time taken: 1 minute 5 seconds.

Tried to record the same for my work laptop. waited for 5 minutes and still the usage was above 40%. say hi to bloatware :D
 
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desiibond

Bond, Desi Bond!
yeah. saw ico's times. breathtaking. my extra HDD is with a friend. will see if I can get it tomorrow and put arch on it. :)
 

Liverpool_fan

Sami Hyypiä, LFC legend
Mine 10.10 boots in 50 seconds (15s to GRUB and 30-35s to complete boot up). Not sure what's wrong though, sometime ago with 10.04 it used to boot in 15-20s (plus 15s) for me.
 

ico

Super Moderator
Staff member
I will be trying out Arch on my pendrive with a new partition on it.

Peace~~~!
No use. :)

Arch is actually for experienced Linux users. You start with command-line and then set-up everything manually. :)
 

ajai5777

Youngling
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Processor - AMD Athlon II X4 630
Ram - 4gb ddr3 1333
HDD - 7200rpm Seagate
AV - Avast 6 Free Edition
Boot time : 1.01 mins (recorded from boot screen to the appearance of last tray icon - ATI control centre)
 
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