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Community weekly poll: How long does it take for your computer to boot up?
- 6/15/07 11:14 AM
New XP over Dell
by rsternb - 6/16/07 6:16 PM In reply to: Boot time 1min 25 seconds. by dvajamzIf it didnt let u install xp and you are getting that annoying msg,
what happened is - the start of the install set this msg in case u had
to go potty hahahaha anyway - when u next get the msg insert your
xp disk and let it install.! ? !
that should take care of it. if you are trying to do a clean/new
install then say no to the part where it want to know if you want 2
operating systems - and let it wipe whats there and put itself in
the C: spot.
think that should cover it ? ?
ted
I may have the record....
by Pumpkinhead - 6/16/07 9:19 PM In reply to: New XP over Dell by rsternb..at about 15 minutes !
I can usually restart, take a shower, dry off and come down just in time to see my XP machine ready.
It takes about 4.5 minutes until I hear that Windows "welcome chime".
At 6 minutes my desktop icons are loaded and the taskbar looks ready.
At about 10-12 minutes the HD light slows down.
At 15 minutes I am ready to ROCK! wOOt !
I run all the regular security measures: anti-virus, Adaware, anti-spyware. I do regular Defraging, and Ccleaner, ect... I have adjusted MSCONFIG to just a handfull of startup items.
After the 15 minutes are up, there are 38 processes in the taskmanager.
Daily operation seem fast enough.
Don't know what the lag is.
I have WinXP, Pentium4 (2.66), 1.5 GB RAM, AVG antivirus
At most 50 seconds...
by aaasolanki - 6/16/07 11:39 PM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Mine is a 3 year old machine running Windows XP SP1 (for some reason I never upgraded to SP2), 256 RAM, a Pentium P4 2.4 Ghz Processor, 80GB HDD and no grahics card.
The secret juice lies in my never ending quest to reduce the number of processes running in the background to less than 25.
I once attended a CNET Class on How to Speed Up your PC which really helped out a lot.
Also, Registry Mechanic speeded it up a few seconds.
When I used to have Norton Security Suite 2005, the boot up times would be higher. But after I replaced it with AVG Free and ZoneAlarm Free, I did experience faster boot ups.
Thanks,
Abhishek alias "Dexter", Mumbai, India.
Less than a minute
by money11465 - 6/16/07 11:44 PM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use RAID0. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a setup usually only found on servers when two hard drives are run together and the data is striped, so for each two bits that need retrieval, each hard drive must only retrieve one bit.
Look at more than processes
by glen271 - 6/17/07 12:13 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My computer starts fairly quickly, never estimated the exact time -
(One point of uncertainty is this: once the user logs in, there is still a wait while files start. Does this count as boot time?)
I reduced my processes to have only around 42 after startup.
I want to offer a tip which is slightly advanced, but one that should help most users. I, like most pc owners, have one serial and one parallel port on the back of my PC. These ports are mostly for "legacy" devices - most newer devices either use USB or Firewire ports. Few recent devices use serial or parallel ports, so they aren't of use to most of us. However, keeping these legacy ports enabled requires "Interupt Requests", using system resources. If you doubt that you will ever use the serial and/or parallel ports, it is worth DISABLING THEM throught either the device manager or BIOS. (You usually press F2 or F1 as soon as the PC starts to access the BIOS.) I found a significant performance gain from disabling these ports.
Another similar improvement can be gained by using a USB mouse and keyboard and disabling the older PS2 ports.
Beware though, that if some day you should somehow need these ports, you will have to enable them.
Under a minute?
by john427 - 6/17/07 7:14 AM In reply to: Look at more than processes by glen271I'm not sure what I'm doing right, but my machine boots up from completely off to desktop (and the ability to run apps) in under 30 seconds using XP Pro SP2.
Don't think I have any out of the ordinary hardware:
2.93GHZ Core 2 Duo
EVGA 680i SLI
GeForce 8800GTX
2GB Corsair Dominator C4
250GB Seagate SATA II HDD
The same machine with Vista takes about 50s.
I am skeptical....
by Pumpkinhead - 6/17/07 8:19 AM In reply to: Under a minute? by john427...of all these low times. Under 1 minute ? From OFF until Apps are ready to be run ? Are these the PC's you use every day ? Or just special high-end gaming rigs ?
how to speed up your system for free
by madtownidiot - 6/17/07 10:18 AM In reply to: I am skeptical.... by PumpkinheadSome of the faster times listed are for gaming systems, restarts, or restarts from hibernation mode. MACs really do start up in 20 seconds or less, from a cold, power off startup. But I have a compaq presario running xp pro with a 1.79 Ghz AMD processor and 512MB of memory that boots up cold in under a minute too. Here's how I do it:
streamline the startup list:
get rid of unnecessary processes: factory-installed spyware, extra toolbars, system hooks, apps you don't use, windows messenger, and especially anything from yahoo or myspace
Use mozilla firefox instead of internet explorer
Download windows xp manager (or vista manager if applicable) and use it to clean up junk files, your system's registry (the registry defrag option alone will cut your startup time by 20%), and other tweaks that are available.
http://www.yamicsoft.com
run ccleaner
use the run function and type chkdsk.exe /r
you'll have to restart
defrag your HDD as many times consecutively as it takes to consolidate all your files into one or two large groups with no small gaps (large gaps are ok), usually 3-5 times in a row
I use ghost to restore my HDDs on my desktop system every week after I make a backup of downloads and other files. It starts up vista ultimate in 35 seconds, but ghost costs $70.
ghost useage
by rsternb - 6/17/07 1:04 PM In reply to: how to speed up your system for free by madtownidiotI tried it once - to copy my c: to g: exact same size partition and
it would not do it ' not enuf room on dest. disk '
so uninstld and - now that I think about it I cant remember
what I did with it hahaha
ted
ghost usage
by madtownidiot - 6/17/07 2:02 PM In reply to: ghost useage by rsternbyou probably didn't set up the partition right, or you made it too small
ghost
by rsternb - 6/17/07 2:39 PM In reply to: ghost usage by madtownidiotI used partition magic. on both hd's.
brand new hd's. created exact same to the byte, size partitions
on both hd's
the 'properties', also show to the byte, the same.
tried reruning it - same prob
looked at every tab to see if ghost needed some click or info
zip
so... back in the box
ted
:-))
everyday
by rsternb - 6/17/07 1:02 PM In reply to: I am skeptical.... by PumpkinheadI use mine everyday. maybe it could be classed close to a high
end gamer - but that was not what I was going for on this last build
I am on this about 5 to 8 hours a day - not necessarily all in one
sitting hahahaha even at 62 I do have a life (sort of haha)
my time was from on switch to clicking to run IE6.
ted
Boot Up for XP
by k6lw - 6/17/07 9:43 AM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
When I first purchased my Sony Vaio it took less than a minute to boot. Now a number of years later it was taking up to five minutes to get to the log on screen and another 10 to 15 minutes before you could actually launch any programs. I bit the bullet and reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled XP. After loading over 90 service packs and patches, it still boots in about 30 seconds and less than a minute after logging on you can perform work.
3-5min
by SteaknEggs95973 - 6/17/07 2:17 PM In reply to: Boot Up for XP by k6lwI had this Sony VAIO laptop for about 2yrs. when I go it first, it loads around 1min. From time to time, it slows down and i formated it. Then, something strange is happening in the background. Like my system busy light goes on anytime and system lags and after 3min{whenever light goes off}, system goes back to normal. I tried to scan with several programs{spyware, antivirus}, it did not detect any unusal thing. So, i re-formated agian and it runs fine but it took me 3 hrs to complete the whole because I have tons of programs and those XP updates to install. Now, my laptop has the system busy light again. I really don't want to re-foramt...i guess i am running out of choice to make my pc start up faster{at least no slower than regular speed}.
45 to 50 seconds
by Stan Chambers - 6/17/07 7:13 PM In reply to: How long does it take for your computer to boot up? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Three yr. old P4, home built.
Win XP pro
Shut down any unecessary programs in startup. Keep it clean of adware and spyware, and run ccleaner before shut down daily.
If it takes more than one minute to boot, I look for the cause.
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