Poll: How long does it take you to start-up?

[nishant]

How long does it take you to start up from the time you see the splash of Windows
(any version) screen to exactly when you get to your desktop?

[vagpap]

about 50 seconds (NAV2001 loads on startup)

K6-2@500, 192MB RAM, WIN98

Vangelis

[CotswoldCS]

31 seconds from power on to Windows Desktop (egg timer stopped). Duron 1005, 512Mb SDRAM, IDE RAID

[Brangwen]

<u>From</u> <u>turning</u> <u>on</u> <u>power</u> to <u>end</u> of boot and ready for use, i.e., <u>no</u> <u>hourglass</u> <u>activity</u>: 65 seconds.

AMD 1.33 GHz @ 1.54 GHz, 512 MB PC133 CS2, Win98, 7200RPM boot drive.


Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

On Iwill KK266Plus board with 1.4 Ghz: 32 seconds.


PS: Timimg this is a priority in my life http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


[This message has been edited by Brangwen (edited 08-27-2001).]

[eagle1]

From the splash screen, 25 seconds.
From starting the machine till Windows loads:69 (Take into consideration that the boot loader from Linux takes 5 seconds!!)

AMD t-bird 1.2
256MB PC133
bla bla bla!!

[Cody]

From the start of my machine (I use Windows 2000 pro, which starts slow, and I use NAV2001)

about 50 - 70 seconds

[F4_Hunter]

From video card splash to Windows 98 SE with no hourglass is a minute and twenty seconds. Alot better than my last system that one took FOREVER.

AMD Tbird 1400@1600
512 DDR
7200 RPM HD's
Promise PCI Controller (accounts for a good 15 seconds)


[This message has been edited by F4_Hunter (edited 08-05-2001).]

[SPEEDO]

80 seconds from power on to last hourglass movement!
1.2 Athlon
768 Ram
7200 rpm hd
ME

[mousepotato]

70 seconds from cold boot power on...
...i have a Promise IDE card & 6 IDE devices
...win ME, PIII@728

[Philip1952]

45 seconds for every thing to load. Zone Alarm-Norton 2000--AIM--Window Washer-Side Winder Control Panel.
Abit WB6--P3-500 N/Overclock
256 memory
5400 rpm drive

[Dputiger]

Running Windows ME:

18 seconds (NO JOKE).

Running Windows XP RC1:

30 seconds.

My system:

AMD Duron 935 (170 Mhz FSB)
256 meg SDRAM
7200 RPM HDD.

[hallam2003]

hey, what is NAV 2001?

Hallam

[NDC]

hey, what is NAV 2001?

Norton Anti-Virus 2001

[muchmark]

Hi,
Two minutes, of course i am running Win2K.

Regards...

[Chevy4lyf]

0, I never turn it off and it never needs it. Win2000 OwZ all other Windows versions, except maybe WinXP, which is the same thing. I can't speak against Linux tho. It takes me a minute to boot tho.

Athlon 650
256 MB RAM
Maxtor 30 GB 7200 RPM (about 1/3 full)

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Duron 750@850 768Mb ram 15Gig 5400 UDMA66
Win98Se
NAV2001

45 seconds from vid card splash screen to no hourglass

from splash screen to no houglass is 30 seconds.

Both time include waiting for network log on (Press Enter) log on.

[elroy]

69 seconds from power on to the disappearance of the hour glass. This includes connecting to the LAN.
Duron 800@980 [140/280 FSB]
256mb CAS2 ram
10gb 5400rpm Maxtor HD
Windows ME
Norton AV 2001

[Ruahrc]

It is about 60 secs exactly for me. That is from pressing the power switch to being able to use windows. 35-40 of those 60 are spent in the "DOS" portions of the bootup, because of my A7V133's extra "Promise ATA100 BIOS" that adds about 15secs to the equation.

Tbird 1.3Ghz
A7V133
H2O cooling
512MB PC133
7200rpm boot drive

[smokin1]

I should double check some day..but about 25 seconds to win98SE..although I haven't rebooted for almost 2 months now...
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[H2gO Flasher]

whats the meaning of all this then ?
- I don't get it, whats ya point

[VERT]

70 seconds, T-bird 800, 256mb pc133, 30gb 7200.
Windows 2000 pro, on startup: Login, mapped network drives, Inoculate scan, zonealarm, baliddns (ip updater).

[Kuasimodem]

58 seconds to no "busy" icon, and that includes running thru both bios's on my KT7-RAID. No splash screen.

[Crimson_Waylander]

12 seconds flat.

This is from when i press the power button to when all startup tasks are totally COMPLETE.

winXP RC2
celeron 400 512mb ram dma 66 hdd.

[10.90streetcar]

from the time i push the button till no hourglass is 40 sec. 25 sec. from windoz splash win 98 se. pIII 750 @ 915

[Makaveli]

From powering on aprox. 20 seconds.

800 Mghz
256 RAM
Windows ME

Only one program runs on start up.

[sKiT]

41 seconds from cold boot to no hour glass and 25 seconds from Windows splash screen to no hour glass on the desktop. That includes a NIC loggin =P


Specs: AMD T-Bird 1.2Ghz (not OC'ed)256DDRRAM PC2100 from a 5400rpm boot drive

[kanchu_deep]

Hit,

Got a AMD 500, 192MB RAM, WinME
Takes around 70 sec to boot. Load a lot of apps at start also.

[computerdude]

Pentium 133 MMX technology.
80mb ram
1.5 gb hardrive
About 30 sec. to run win98

[gdlewis]

~50 seconds from power on to ready.

Athlon @ 1.53
256 crucial
7200 rpm westdig
winME
etc.

[This message has been edited by gdlewis (edited 08-25-2001).]

[newbie~wan]

No post, question:

For those of you with sub-30 second boot-ups......HOW?

Especially crimson and mak.....how the hell do ya do it?

[wahrez]

74 seconds from Video Info to No Hourglass.

PII 400 Mhz
UDMA 66
Windows 2000
Including Network Login

From 2000 splah screen it takes 51 seconds.

How come some of you people with 900+ Mhz are sooo slow???

[medo]

Hello,

1 minute. PIII 1Ghz.


Medo

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[robin801]

i'm like you newbie~wan, how do they do that?
my system takes forever. i ususally do the dishes while i wait for my system to boot up.

i only have these loading on startup:

scan registry
task monitor
system tray
load power profile
zone alarm(things associated with zone alarm)


robin

[7Words]

56 seconds from power on to completely loaded windows 2000 desktop (includes nav2001).

tbird 800
256mb
geforce mx

[Cygnus-X1]

Too long.. heh heh, about a minute or so.
AMD 600
Win98 SE
256 RAM

[Hawkeye178]

60-80 Seconds, Using Windows ME Upgrade, it was much faster with 98 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif.

Celery 466 with a 128KV L2 Cache
196MB PC-133 SDRAM
5400RPM, I think, HDD

Hawkeye178

[Bovon]

I have never timed mine. For the most part, I am never at the machine while booting. I get up in the morning, hit the master switch on the power console (AT setup) then go get my coffee and a snack ready. When I get back to the computer, and its setting at desk top without any errors, I am as tickled as anyone running Windoz could possibly be. A good clean boot without any problems makes my day...everytime!! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[jansson_markus]

1 minute and 35 seconds from the time power button is pressed to the end of HDD activity!

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif Damm it! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

WindowsME
600MHz Duron
256MB RAM
5400rpm HDD
Lots of apps to start (F-Secure antivirus, ZA, PGP, seti@home, memturbo...)

Markus

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[Bob The Great]

29 seconds from when I press the power button till the hourglass has stopped.

Duron 700Mhz
256Mbs pc-2100
Radeon LE
win98 se

[jkittlesen]

AMD K-6 450
128 RAM
WINDOWS XP RCI
41 SEC

[kanchu_deep]

Hi,

On my AMD K6-2 500, with 256MB RAM and a 54,000 rpm HDD, it takes a little under one minute to load Win98SE...

[Dan_King888]

It takes about 1 min 40 sec. from the time I select Windows 2000 to the time the activity stops.
My system is AMD Duron 800 @ 910
512 MB RAM
30 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 7200 RPM Hard Drive.

Does anyone have any ideas for reducing the boot time? The applications that load on startup are Inoculate IT PE, ATI Display Prog., Adaptec DirectCD, Zone Alarm, and Motherboard Monitor.

Thanks

Daniel

[Brangwen]

1.4 Ghz on Iwill KK266Plus mobo, 512 MB SDRAM, Win98se, 60 GB IBM ATA100: 32 seconds.

Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[OuTpaTienT]

40 seconds (±2 sec.) from a cold power-on to Windoze hourglass gone and ready to use. It use to be quite a bit shorter before the cable modem/NIC.

Classic Athlon 1Ghz
Abit KA7 m/b
Windoze '98
w/nothing running at Windoze start-up as is usual for me.

[robin801]

hey you speed demons http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif are any of you going to help us slow pokes get up to speed?

how to speed up has been asked a couple of times and you guys are going so fast you keep missing the question. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


robin

[IronHawk]

Yeah! -- to HOW DO THEY DO IT?

I'll post my time when I get home from work.....

MB

[IronHawk]

Sgraffito- What OS? That reminds me of the 3.1 days http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

MB

[OuTpaTienT]

<u>Sgraffito</u>

"from the splash screen" doesn't tell us the whole story by a long shot.

How 'bout "from a cold boot to the point Windoze has settled down (no hourglass)"? That seems to be the standard sequence everyone else is judging their boot up time by.

[madfish]

my machine from a cold start about 2 - 4 min.
my sons from a cold start about 1 1/2 min
my daughters from cold start about 1 1/2 min
the spare machine for the kids friends to use from a cold start about 45 seconds, lol, nothing but old dos games on it.
All machines on the lan are though a SMC router.
P-II 350 -`98 -320 ram
P-233mmx -`98 -128 ram
P-200mmx -`98 - 64 ram
DX4/100 -`95 - 40 ram

Madfish

Edit: added types of machines info


[This message has been edited by madfish (edited 08-28-2001).]

[Sgraffito]

19 SECONDS FROM THE SPLASH SCREEN!!!!!!!

Amazing, considering what I have!

TX Pro II Socket 7 SIS motherboard -
2.1 Gig Hard Drive -
52X Delta CD-ROM Drive -
Floppy Drive -
32 Mb's Memory -
1 Mb Trident Video Card -
Muse Gamesurround XL Sound Card -

:-P
-Sgraffito

[Sgraffito]

Forgot my Processor...Cyrix MII 333MHz set at 250 MHz. -Sgraffito

[MadMatt]

54 seconds from hitting the power button to Desktop with no hourglass, including logging in to the Active Directory over a WAN link!

HP VL400
Windows XP Pro RC2
PIII 1GHZ
256MB PC133
30GB 7200 RPM HDD
Matrox Millenium G450 DualHead


[This message has been edited by MadMatt (edited 08-28-2001).]

[hirschY]

8 Sec!
When I load DOS!!! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

IBM PC300 PIII 733
128MB RAM
some kinda ATA100, 7200 rpm HD

With Window$ 2000 Pro, takes about 70 Sec. including login,

Only have to reboot the system once a month, just to clear the cache out...

Home PC, AMD Duron750
WD 20 GB 7200, ata 100
Nvidia 32 MB card (dont know the actual specifics, silly me)
Boot up cold to actual use of Window$, 40 sec.

Shut down time is only 8 sec!! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


~for the newbies~
The only way to spead up your boot time is to take a look at the msconfig, and see what else is really loading at startup.

[Harshu]

For first screen of life to Desktop 25sec and till hour glass stops 65sec.

My Config
P2 350@ 324Mhz 256 MB PC-133 Cas2
Win ME 20GB 7200RPM IBM HDD.

[henry]

HOW?

Well, to get such low speed it's easy.
Don't install anything, except those that are *REALLY* important, eg. drivers.

After pressing the power switch.
set BIOS to quickboot=on
VideoBios=cached

Autoexec.bat & config.sys
delete them.

No anti-virus software

Nothing in your startup

Nothing in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run (RunOnce) (RunOnceEx)

Those using Win2k, set it up so that no login box.
Control Panel --&gt; Users & Password --&gt; UNCHECK "Users must enter...."

Those using WinNT4, use TweakUI to accomplish that.

Add if I've left out anything obvious/obscure.

[The Beav]

Well it's about an hour and a half to get fully functional...............you know shower, coffee, etc.

Ohhh, you mean my pc! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

It's roughly 45 -60 secounds.

W2k
6oo Athlon
384 mgs ram
Fic SD-11 mo board

[newbie~wan]

About 20 seconds from power on to no hour glass in win98se

ECS K7S5A w/ 1.2ghz 266fsb athlon
256mb micron ddr memory
30gb WD 7200rpm HDD
abit siluro GF2 MX 400 w/ tv out
sb live! value

For those of you who want to speed up boot-up, get rid of anything that isnt necessary to windows startup.

I think I only have explorer and system tray, maybe one or two other things. Perhaps getting some more stuff on it will slow it down. I currenlty have no real programs on it (1st build) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[dcolley]

If you want slow boot ups, I mean really slow boot ups, buy an Apple Mac. They make windows look good.

[mcihome]

From turning on power to end of boot and ready for use. (no hourglass activity): 35sec
(NAV 2001 Loads)
From turning on power to show desktop: 26sec
From Windows Splash Screen to show Desktop: 16sec.

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[mcihome]

I forgot my system specs:

AMD K6-2 500 @ 550mhz
Pc-Partner VIA MVP4 Cyberblade i7AGP/Audio Integrated
56 Meg Cas2 SDRAM
5400 RPM 10Gb UDMA66 Maxtor H.D.
Windows 98SE

mcihome@hotmail.com

[seabell]

Splash to no eggtimer: 19 seconds

System:
Compaq Presario
P1 133MHz
40MB RAM
Win 98 Lite - "chubby" shell

(Don't all get jealous now)

[Mal]

About 2 minutes when I hit power button to no HD activity.

Win2k
PII 233
128MB RAM

Since adding my CDRW, double that amount.

[cadetstimpy]

For those wondering about the speedy guys....if they have their system using the suspend or hibernate modes (especially with WinME and Win2k) then that is how they are getting the quick times. With the right configuration you would still technically hit the "power button", the os would resume from information in on the HDD to the last state. A lot faster than a complete OS bootup from a previous and successful shutdown.

[brainchild]

40 seconds from power on till no hour glass.
750 AMD Thunderbird
98SE
64 mb ram