Community weekly poll: How long does it take for your computer to boot up?
- 6/15/07 11:14 AM
1 minute 45seconds
by John Butler - 6/16/07 3:18 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My tips
First Use a boot manger utility, Startup Control <http://codestuff.tripod.com/> is good and has free trial version, to analyse the programs that are loaded at startup.
Disable the boot startup (do not delete) of those you do not need immediately, they can always be started when you want them.
In particular disable MSN Mssenger|Windows live Messenger from loading at start up as it can take a lontime to connect and meantime your system is waiting to complete loading
Secondly review your security software and settings. The top suites have been getting more and more complex and slow down both windows boot and download speed very substantially. I use a simple Nvidia firewall and Kaspersky Internet Security for antivirus and spyware
20 to 45 seconds
by Autumnmycat - 6/16/07 4:09 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Ah, the beauty of a MacBook. Looks good and normally boots up faster than lightning.
Quck boot
by yeochief - 6/16/07 5:03 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It takes 65 seconds to boot and that includes typing username and password. The secret, Linux, Ubuntu specifically.
less than a minute (Win XP 64-bit)/2-3 minutes (Regular XP)
by im2nic2 - 6/16/07 5:28 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Once I select an OS my computer is quick -- It's not super new, but I built it myself with fast DDR-RAM and a SATA-150 hard disk. It's all about squeezing as much performance as possible out of the processor (not overclocked). My next project will probably be water-cooled and overclocked (maybe with Tukwila (Intel) or Cloverton (AMD)). I like speedy computing!
Hibernate!
by Nik_I - 6/16/07 5:31 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use hibernate on my XP machine. It takes about a minute or so from the time i press the button, until the time the machine is ready to go.
Just under 57 seconds
by F_demon - 6/16/07 5:32 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My PC boots up in 57 seconds, but with at least 7 seconds of the Nod32 screen. Still, I can use my computer in under a minute.
I've recently been tweaking my settings thanks to this site:
http://freepctech.com/pc/xp/xpindex.shtml
Also, I've unchecked some programs to automatically start up in msconfig.exe
I have XP MCE, with a 3.4ghz dual core processor and 1gb of ram.
My PC boots up in 57 seconds, but with at least 7 seconds
by John Butler - 6/16/07 7:00 AM In reply to: Just under 57 seconds by F_demonHard to beleive that this is true if connection to the internet is alos taking place?
What is unclear?
by F_demon - 6/19/07 3:32 PM In reply to: My PC boots up in 57 seconds, but with at least 7 seconds by John ButlerI don't really understand what you don't understand. (no offense meant)
Without any anti-virus, it boots up in the same time I think.
Also, read up on Nod 32. I know programs like Norton freeze your computer while downloading the updates, but Nod 32 has really small updates. Read the review on Cnet: http://reviews.cnet.com/software/nod32-2-5/4505-3513_7-32103849.html?tag=prod.txt.1
Also, we have broadband.
ok I guess
by mincor3456 - 6/16/07 5:33 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
it takes about 45 seconds to get to the windows login screen and then about 2 minutes and 10 seconds for all programs to load (thanks to scotty the watchdog for disabling startup programs also known as winpatrol) so it takes around 3 and a half minutes to my computer to be completely functioning.
Under A Minute
by Jason83 - 6/16/07 5:38 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
OK. 3 year old machine...originally. Been thru some upgrades. Running P4 3.0 GHZ HT with 1.5Gb RAM Win XP Pro. My primary SATA HDD is 90%full , and I have a secondary PATA HDD.
Less than a minute to useable desktop, but still loading the last of the services. Total processes after boot 53/ 54. 4 of these are Folding at home apps, and cores.
Top tips:
1) DEFRAG REGULARLY. I do it at least once a week, even when the anlaysis says it isn't necesssary, cos it LIES. A PC at work was takin about 30 secs to show the start menu when you pressed the START key. The reason? Never been defragged - was approx 80% fragmented!! Defrag is a PCs best friend! USE IT.
2)Keep out the crapware; yes, I'm looking at you Google toolbar, Yahoo toolbar etc.... Be careful what you install. All too often there is crapware bundled with downloaded software these days. Take your time on the Next button...
3) Cap the pagefile. I'm running a pagefile of 2Gb initial, and Max 4Gb. This is obviously relative to the amount of RAM you have, but I have had no issues with the headroom I allow. The bigger your pagefile needs to be, the longer your PC will take to boot.
More RAM = less pagefile.
My PC doesn't even seem to use anywhere near 2Gb from startup. Only 452Mb right now. Just gotta give it the headroom, cos some apps will soak it up very quickly.
4) Make sure you have eough RAM. I see too many manufacturers of affordable systems that are only able to sell cheap PCs cos they only put enough RAM in to run Win 98/2000 decently. It's not worth sacrificing RAM for system price. A decent PC should have at least 1GB nowadays. Accept no less!
Boot up 1min45sec
by jonfrodo - 6/16/07 5:49 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
hmm not to much stuff on my tool bar. Also I find that defargmenting hard drives in a reqular schedule seems to work.
Jon Frodo
Boot UP poll
by Renz_L - 6/16/07 6:20 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I build my own PC's and there are couple of things I do when I build them so that the machine is always quick. (1) First is build the machine with 2 hard drives. Install the operating system on drive 1 and place the programs on the second drive. (2) Partitioning the drive to a smaller size instead of these huge sizes today, helps a lot! It make defraging the drive much quicker without long waits and it allows better organization of the drive and my data. The smaller partitions gives me extra drives, where I can "ghost" the drive and should disaster strike, get back to speed quickly - without worrying too much about lost data. This is because the documents/ photos / spreadsheets are not stored on drive same drive as my OS or program files.
About a minute...
by james11f - 6/16/07 6:24 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Well, my brand new Dell e1505 with it's core duo processor takes about a minute to get ready for me. It has vista premium, so I think that is pretty good.
Boot up
by tdc100u - 6/16/07 6:33 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Running XP on an HP laptop with AMD 3200+ 797Mhz, 512M RAM with slow 80Gb HD. It takes a good 5 minutes until it is usable due McAfee On-Access Scanner doing it's job. I'd like it to start a bit faster but I'm not willing to upgrade it, replace it, or turn off the On-Acess Scanner. Once it's ready, it does fine with browsing, MS Office and even PhotoShop CS. It's a little pokey but the xbright screen is top-notch. I'm tinkering with a duo-core IBM laptop with 2Gb RAM and Vista provided to my by my employer. It isn't much faster from a cold start, (McAfee Scanner again) and Vista still seems half-baked. My 2 year old, single core, 2GB RAM, XP work desktop machine is the only one that gets the McAfee Scanner out of the way in short order. Haven't done a real investigation why but I'm guessing its all about HD speed.
I know too well
by rumbler425 - 6/16/07 7:20 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a macpro and a macbook both of which go from cold to work ina minute of less. The Windows machine I got from emachines that I use as a server takes at least three minutes to start. It has all this junk on it at startup that is nearly impossible to get rid off.
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