 How Fast Does Your System Boot, And What's Your Os?, Poll |
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 Sep 1 2007, 02:06 PM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ]  Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 31-August 07 Member No.: 24,503  |
what gets me is the total system grabbing grip of software such as hp's photosmart, norton internet suite and the like. without these i would shave about 2 minutes off the time i have to wait before i can successfully use my pc.
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Sep 1 2007, 09:01 PM
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Sparkx  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 353 Joined: 11-October 06 From: Dana Point, CA, USA Member No.: 16,496 |
Well I use windows XP on a good day I boot up around in less then 20 secounds but if I have a lot of fragments then it could take from 30 to 45 secounds. It is not too slow in my opinion because I usually start up my computer then go do something and when I come back it has already been booted up for a few minutes. It would be nice to have a faster boot time but the only use would be if I was in a hurry (in which I don't think the boot time would make an inpact in the overall startup). I run a defragment every 2-3 months but I have Zone Alarm which takes a long time to load. Once loaded my system is Average speed.
Thats my system, Sparkx |
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Sep 5 2007, 07:56 PM
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Member [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 29-August 07 Member No.: 24,447 |
Mine Is Under 15 Seconds Because I Run A Quad Core CPU! I'm Also Running Windows XP SP2 64 Bit, So I'm Currently Using My Computer To The MAX! It's Really Fast When Playing Video Games! You Guys Should See How Fast A Quad Core Processor Is! I've Just Upgraded Last Summer! Although When Playing Some Old Video Games, The Quad Core Processor Doesn't Suppport It! But Some Old Games Release Patch Fixes. I'm Currently Waiting For My Favourite Game Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory To Release A Quad Core Processor Fix!
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Sep 25 2007, 01:58 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 24-September 07 Member No.: 25,093 |
Approximately 70 sec. until log on but i have to wait another 60 sec. (until other programs boot
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Sep 25 2007, 07:42 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 12-February 05 From: St. Louis, MO Member No.: 2,612 |
QUOTE the system is pretty slow these days. I am not sure what it actually does there besides the Hardware detection, font & driver loading. Perhaps, I need to change the Hard Disk? In case it's an issue... winXP preloads and indexes externals by default... That was bottleneckin me for a bit... I'd rather just stall out an explorer or konqueror window... the main prollem i've had with xp is completely extracting old drivers when i upgrade hardware, various portions of my hdd becoming overused... especially reg locations... and random instabilities... plus it's not cool to swap pci or other cards without the whole remove, boot, move, boot, replace method... : ? |
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Sep 26 2007, 04:25 AM
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Colonel Panic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,780 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 |
It takes my MacBook under 15s to load up through the system loading and account login.
Specifications MacBook MacOS X 10.4.10 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 667MHz FSB 4MB L2 Cache 120GB 5400RPM HDD 1GB DDR2-5300 RAM 8x SuperDrive xboxrulz |
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Sep 26 2007, 05:06 AM
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SM- the Man -The Myth - The Legend Himself Group: Members Posts: 443 Joined: 4-September 05 From: Drinking da rootbeers Member No.: 8,313 |
Although I put my laptop in standby mode and it usually boots in about 10 seconds, I would say it will be anywhere from 15-30 when I have to do a restart because of the stuff I have running on it. Yeah I could just change the options and blah blah run it faster, but those few seconds go by quickly and I am not missing anything while waiting for my computer to boot.
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Sep 26 2007, 09:10 AM
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Member [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 21-September 07 Member No.: 24,999 |
when i installed windows xp sp2 on my system and added startup items such as avg, webshots, sidebar, anti-phishing it took my system to boot up for 40seconds. This a pentium 4 system with 40gb disk.
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Sep 27 2007, 05:27 PM
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Premium Idiot Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 661 Joined: 9-July 05 From: Switzerland, but currently in Pakistan Member No.: 6,943 |
I wish the poll was multiple choice. As it is I could only vote for one of my systems.
So... Desktop1: (P4, 512MB, 80GB HDD, XP Pro, @ 6 programs launched on startup) - 25 seconds with auto logon Desktop2: (P DualCore, 2GB, 300+500+160+160+200 HDD, XP Pro, @ 8 programs launched on startup) - 70 seconds Dual Boot Laptop: (P DualCore, 2GB, 120GB HDD, 2 programs launched on startup) - not counting OS select menu XP Pro: 25 seconds Vista: 50 seconds (but when rebooting after installing updates, logon takes 2 or 3 minutes) |
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Sep 30 2007, 12:52 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 219 Joined: 13-February 07 Member No.: 20,371 |
I have vista and it usually boots within about 60 seconds or so (although it is kinda hard to tell because I have to enter a password in to boot up), also I have McAfee antivirus which takes a little bit...and some software for accessing the network (allowing for mapping of network drives from anywhere i have internet access and such) and that slows down the boot a fair amount.
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