Computer boot up time?

[JDgreen227]

How long does it take your computer to boot up and be ready to go online? I am talking about a complete start from the time you turn it on, log in using a password, and it is ready to connect to the Internet. I have a pair of 3 year old Toshiba laptops, both running Vista 32 bit, with all bloatware removed, and although they use a different processor, I can connect to DSL in 2:45 with one, and 3:15 with the second. Someone on another forum is bragging that his Dell will boot up in 40 seconds, and I want to tell him he is full of horse pooh. He claims his computer is not in hibernate or sleep mode, but will boot up from off in 40 seconds.

 

[Bird]

I haven't actually timed mine, but I can guarantee the time is closer to your times than any 40 seconds.:laughing: But it may not be a good comparison because I'm using an HP desktop with Windows 7 instead of a laptop.

 

[JDgreen227]

I haven't actually timed mine, but I can guarantee the time is closer to your times than any 40 seconds.:laughing: But it may not be a good comparison because I'm using an HP desktop with Windows 7 instead of a laptop.

I have a modded Dell 530 desktop with no bloatware, a huge hard drive and Vista 64 bit and that one takes 4:20. I will tell the braggart on the other site "Bird over on TBN says you are full of horse pooh...." :laughing:

Oh, I should have noted that the only thing I have running on all 3 Vista computers aside from what they came with, minus the bloatware, is Kaspersky Internet Security. No other programs, not even photo editing software.

 

[beppington]

Just tried it for this thread: 2 mins 28 seconds ... This is Win 7 64-bit quad-core (4 AMD Athlon II X4 650 Processors), 920 GB hard drive that went into service on Dec 13, 2011.

First thing I did was uninstalled all the crap that I'll never use, which was MOST of it!

12 seconds to shutdown

22 seconds until I saw "Starting Windows"

 

[k0ua]

Acer Aspire laptop 5750 windows 7 Home premium

From dead power off to seeing the desktop, going thru password login to the account was 45 seconds. Seeing the tractorbynet home page was 1min 45 seconds. I had to fight 2 other applications that loaded (softphone and another TAPI phone manager) that wanted login credentials perhaps loosing 5 to 10 seconds to get rid of them.
This is a pretty new and fast computer.

James K0UA

 

[beppington]

OK, I realized my Firefox home page was set to a home page that is offline right now. When changed that & decided to let Microsoft Security Essentials start itself (instead of being impatient & starting it manually, thinking it wasn't go to on it's own) & re-tried I got back to TBN in 1 min 53 sec.

I also have nothing at all in my Startup folder.

 

[Willl]

1:20.

Desktop with Windows XP and always on cable internet or whatever they call it.

 

[k0ua]

OK, I realized my Firefox home page was set to a home page that is offline right now. When changed that & decided to let Microsoft Security Essentials start itself (instead of being impatient & starting it manually, thinking it wasn't go to on it's own) & re-tried I got back to TBN in 1 min 53 sec.

I also have nothing at all in my Startup folder.

sounds like we are real close. mine also started Microsoft security essentials.
Windows 7 is faster to start than Vista from what I have seen. But I havent seen any web pages in 40 seconds.

 

[beppington]

3rd try

Turned off some junk in my System Configuration "Startup" list (never knew existed) & got it down to 1 min 46 secs.

That's probably as good as I can do.

Oh, 8 GB RAM.

 

[Bird]

OK, you made me curious, so I deleted browsing history and ran CCleaner and shut this contraption down. It's an old HP AMD Athlon 64 x 2 Dual Core processor 5600+, 3 GB RAM came with Vista but I later upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium.

So when I turned it back on, it said "Starting Windows" in 29 seconds, most of my desktop appeared in 1 minute, 4 seconds, and I was logged onto the Internet (10 meg DSL) in 2 minutes, 26 seconds.

So it actually booted up quicker than I thought it did.

 

[k0ua]

3rd try

Turned off some junk in my System Configuration "Startup" list (never knew existed) & got it down to 1 min 46 secs.

That's probably as good as I can do.

Oh, 8 GB RAM.

you have more RAM to check.. I only have 4GB

 

[powerpace]

45 seconds from button push to first post.

HP G60. Notebook
Verizon MIFI Hotspot 3 and 4G
I do manual Cleanup disk, Defrag, and use AVG security, minimum on startup programs.
Allways do your updates.

 

[bp fick]

Right at 25 seconds.

MacBook Pro

 

[MossRoad]

I've got a Dell laptop Latitude E6520 with 8G of RAM, i7 processor running 64bit W7 pro.

It takes about 45 seconds to come up, log in and start surfing.

My kid has some model of Toshiba with a lesser processor, less Ram and W7. Hers takes about 1 minute.

 

[MossRoad]

I've got a Dell laptop Latitude E6520 with 8G of RAM, i7 processor running 64bit W7 pro.

It takes about 45 seconds to come up, log in and start surfing.

My kid has some model of Toshiba with a lesser processor, less Ram and W7. Hers takes about 1 minute.

With that said, I also have a few cannon balls in my arsenal that would be stiff competition for Morse code! :laughing:

 

[zzvyb6]

I have several laptops, all working. Only 1 remaining with Vista.

Its Vista. That was one of the biggest complaints about it. Well worth the money to buy Windows 7. Get the up-to-3-install version for $109 at Costco (for example).

Heads-up though: My home security camera's internet DDNS viewer won't run under I.E. 9 so be aware of this problem I still can run as a local network element, just not thru DDNS. You need that when you want to check up on the dog's or teenager's play status when you are out of town. Or, keep an older copy of I.E. around.

 

[Reg]

How long does it take your computer to boot up and be ready to go online? I am talking about a complete start from the time you turn it on, log in using a password, and it is ready to connect to the Internet. I have a pair of 3 year old Toshiba laptops, both running Vista 32 bit, with all bloatware removed, and although they use a different processor, I can connect to DSL in 2:45 with one, and 3:15 with the second. Someone on another forum is bragging that his Dell will boot up in 40 seconds, and I want to tell him he is full of horse pooh. He claims his computer is not in hibernate or sleep mode, but will boot up from off in 40 seconds.

It depends what he is running, Windoze ..... bleah, could take a nap while waiting for that crap.
Linux .... depends which distro and what startup programs and libraries are opened.

and of course SOME of it depends on the hardware;
a SSD can make a HUGE difference, a hybrid drive such as Sea_Crate's Momentus XT can speed things up quite a bit too.

Of course, reading this thread and responding to it takes time out of our lives (-:
Does it MATTER ?

 

[Scooby074]

About 35-40 sec. Win7 with 6GB ram and SSD drive. Intel Core i7 920 2.67 ghz

 

[rsewill]

42 seconds until my browser page opens.

Stock three year old MacBook Air w/stock solid state hard drive and WiFi to always-on cable modem.

 

[RobertN]

A couple minutes with Win7 on a Q45CB board with Intel Quad Core(I worked for them for too long to think about that AMD stuff. I remember when Andy Grove and AMD's Sanders used to banter about...)

My work PC with a newer board and processor takes a loooong time, but it is Win7 Enterprise with a bunch of corporate IT stuff bogging it down...

I wish these MB companies would brainstorm and standardize on a Flash chip on the motherboard, and put the OS boot kernel on that. Boot kernel on on-board Flash device, SSD with the rest of the OS related stuff, and a huge regular platter HDD for data.