 How Fast Does Your System Boot, And What's Your Os?, Poll |
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 Sep 30 2007, 12:58 AM
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Oh come on Mrs. B!  Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 6-June 07 From: Tasmania, Australia Member No.: 22,422  |
does booting mean from time you turn computer on till its logged on, or from logging on till when the computers actually loaded?
mine doesnt take too long, ive never looked to see how long so i cant tell you, though roughly 30 seconds or so. i havent defragmented my computer for more than a year. i started it once in the morning and then that night it was only done 30% so i stopped it. |
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Sep 30 2007, 01:08 AM
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Colonel Panic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,794 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 |
I think they meant the time it takes to boot until the desktop is shown.
It wasn't really clear. xboxrulz |
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Sep 30 2007, 11:10 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 151 Joined: 24-May 07 From: Canada Member No.: 22,135 |
My 800mhz windows xp desktop boots up in about 3 minutes lol. My 1.8ghz windows xp takes less than 10 seconds to bootup, and my old 366mhz clamshell with OS X takes about 1 minute to boot up. Lol my mac still boots up faster than my windows machine
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Oct 2 2007, 08:56 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: 30-July 07 Member No.: 23,704 |
I've booted my OS within 15 secs and I actually counted it.
 Anyway for this to happen, my machine didn't have a lot of startup program that need to be loaded at startup. Just a few. And of course I've been doing a few system maintenance quite regularly. 1. Defragmentation. Think it is the core of lagging your system bootup. 2. Removing those startup programs that I don't need it. 3. System cleanup, free space (Some says it doesn't affect the speed of the bootup, but it just gets faster after I done it.  )4. Scanning of virus. I think that's quite a handfull of tasks to do in a regular basis though I'm not that hardcore to tune my registry.  Cheers. |
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Oct 2 2007, 06:15 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've found Diskeeper 11 to be an especially good help in defragging and boosting everything from boot time to page file access. It does a great job. Course it's not freeware, but worth the investment.
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Oct 3 2007, 02:27 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: 30-July 07 Member No.: 23,704 |
QUOTE(Grafitti @ Oct 2 2007, 06:15 PM)  I've found Diskeeper 11 to be an especially good help in defragging and boosting everything from boot time to page file access. It does a great job. Course it's not freeware, but worth the investment. Agreed. Currently using Diskeeper for defragmentation rather than the Windows one. Graphical Interface is pretty comprehensive. With mapping and percentage of how fragment your harddisk. Worth a try if anyone is interested. http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp |
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Nov 4 2007, 04:42 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 4-November 07 Member No.: 25,937 |
I'm using gentoo linux and it boots up in less than 30 secs...
Specs: Intel Pentium D 930 4x512MB 667Mhz Ram 160 GB Samsung Sata Harddrive |
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Nov 5 2007, 04:14 AM
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Teh Coder Group: Members Posts: 1,053 Joined: 18-April 06 From: Australia Member No.: 12,833 |
I really do not know why but mine can take up to 5 minutes.
Most of that time spent is a blank screen with a blinking _. And then hopefully the login screen shows up for XP Home SP2. Does anyone know any nice little things I can do to speed it up, that shouldn't affect too much? I don't currently mess with any settings that would affect booting, and I would prefer if I do anything, it not negatively impact on other things. |
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