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    Excellent Boot Time after Clean Install,Share your`s.

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by nader_rizk2003, May 4, 2011.

  1. RacingGun

    RacingGun Notebook Consultant

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    Concerning the necessity of a fresh install for Windows 7: my laptop is over a year old, and I have never re-installed Windows. In other words, this is still the installation that Dell performed. I've trimmed, tweaked, and tailored everything to my desire, and it is running incredibly well.

    A fresh install of Window might be easier, but is in no way required anymore. As long as you know your way around the OS and are confident with removing/installing programs and drivers, you can make it just like a fresh install.

    Also, I swear by Auslogics Disk Defrag... great program: Disk Defrag - Fast and Safe Defragmenter for Your Disks (for those of us not yet running SSDs :p

    Alright, so if I decide to scam Boot Racer I can get a boot time of 25 seconds. (You can trick it by waiting on the login screen and not entering your password, Window's keeps loading up its garbage, but Boot Racer doesn't count the time against your boot. When the harddrive activity stops, then enter your password). If I don't scam it, then I get 45 seconds. Though honestly, my desktop is responsive and I can load up Chrome long before Boot Racer considers my desktop to be loaded.

    In either case, I'm very happy with my computer :D
     
    RacingGun, May 11, 2011
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  2. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    You are right but fresh install is 100% better and about the boot racer,remove your password and try it again to see the exact time windows takes to load :D .
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 11, 2011
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  3. RacingGun

    RacingGun Notebook Consultant

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    Too lazy to remove my password and reboot again, but I would assume my "non-passworded" time is 45 seconds plus or minus a couple seconds. Though I did reboot once, enter my password fast, and then load up chrome and it was loaded up before 30 seconds.

    Edit: Though with previous iterations of Windows, I was a religious re-installer, and I will probably do so at some point in the future.
     
    RacingGun, May 11, 2011
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  4. oic0

    oic0 Notebook Enthusiast

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    It says time to login 11 seconds, but says total boot time is 18 seconds. Not sure on that one since it feels like as soon as you see the logon screen it flashes to desktop and you could load an application. Yes I'm on an SSD.
     
    oic0, May 11, 2011
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  5. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    I am sure you will do a clean install soon :)
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 11, 2011
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  6. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    18 seconds total boot time is very good
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 11, 2011
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  7. sag_patel

    sag_patel Notebook Geek

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    after the clean install, I rated my laptop and processor is rated at 4.5 and ram at 5.5.

    I have i7 2630 and 6 gb ram
     
    sag_patel, May 12, 2011
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  8. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    There is something wrong my processor is 7.4 and Ram 4GB is 5.9
    Did you install Turbo?.if not,do it and rerun it again
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 12, 2011
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  9. sag_patel

    sag_patel Notebook Geek

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    are you talking abt the turbo boost tech software, i already have it.
     
    sag_patel, May 12, 2011
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  10. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    Did the problem solved?
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 13, 2011
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  11. sag_patel

    sag_patel Notebook Geek

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    nop. still there..dont know what to do.I even tried system restore but no gain.
     
    sag_patel, May 13, 2011
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  12. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    I will search the internet trying to help you
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 13, 2011
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    thumper300zx Notebook Geek

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    Best I've had is 25 seconds with Boot Racer -- i5 560m, 8 GB RAM, and V100 Kingston SSD. But hey, it's faster than it was with my 7200 rpm drive :)
     
    thumper300zx, May 13, 2011
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  14. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    SSD is really faster,i will upgrade to it ASAP
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 13, 2011
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    Finally, I had to reinstall Windows and install the drivers again. Everything is working fine with system rating back to normal (7.4 for processor).
     
    sag_patel, May 14, 2011
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  16. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    Good to hear that
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 15, 2011
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  17. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    I will upgrade to 8GB of memory,will this affect the amount of shared memory with Intel HD graphics 3000?
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 15, 2011
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  18. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    Just 20 seconds boot time after upgrade to 8GB DDR3 1333 ( GSkill )


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    nader_rizk2003, May 30, 2011
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  19. Brendanmurphy

    Brendanmurphy Your Worst Nightmare

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    With my vertex 2 fresh install with all my apps installed and everything tweaked 17 seconds. Way better then 1:19 on my 7200rpm
     
    Brendanmurphy, May 30, 2011
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  20. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    DDS really much faster than the 7200 RPM
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 30, 2011
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  21. Brendanmurphy

    Brendanmurphy Your Worst Nightmare

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    It's like night and day everything is instant. I love the boot time tho :p
     
    Brendanmurphy, May 30, 2011
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  22. nader_rizk2003

    nader_rizk2003 Notebook Evangelist

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    I love the boot time as well
     
    nader_rizk2003, May 30, 2011
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