How long does it take yours to boot?

Hey, I'm just wondering about how long does it take for an inspiron 1420, 1520, and 1330 to boot?

 

ill check right now

 

ok 45 seconds from pressing the power button to when everything is loaded including mcafee and the wireless network connected

 

wow, isn't that slow? or isn't it?

 

I don't think so. I hope not lol

 

It is. If you slim down Vista (like I have with previous versions of Windows) and use a fast Anti-Virus (NOD32 is both fast and effective), you can get boot times of 10 seconds.

 

really? hmm what do you mean by slim down?

 

So you're saying from the hit of your power button to your desktop screen you get 10 seconds? Did you change drivers and get rid of bloatware? Thats what I'm guessing.

 

Are you kidding? 10 seconds? Forget Vista, even XP doesnt boot in 10 seconds.

 

Woah, ok 45 seconds thanks, that seems about fair! 10 seconds!?! woah how the hell did you do that?

 

Is it a contest ?

 

ok....i have everything slimmed down on my system and i get atleast 45 secs to the login screen...and then maybe 20 or 30 secs to finish loading(where the HD stops whirring)

is there something im missing? or is it because i only have a gig of ram(i already ordered an extra gig)

 

yea it sounds like the extra gig will probably do it. I'm glad to see tho that around 45 secs is pretty average for vista

 

Wow what a coincidence my Bugatti Veyron goes from 0-150mph in that same amount of time

 

wow if you actually have that car can I have $100000? thx

 

Haha it was a joke, i was mocking his pretty outlandish statement about the speed of his boot up, with the outlandish claim that I own the most expensive/fastest production car ever made

 

damn I needed money lol

 

Haha, Lol.

My boot up time, in XP with normal start-up, anti virus and wirelss, it's anywhere from 30-45 seconds depending on whether im on battery or not

Note: I have formated and reinstalled everything...which is an amazing help.

 

10 seconds? it takes like 3-5 seconds to get past the Dell post screen after pressing the power button.

 

can't you put vista into hibernate mode like you can in xp?

 

yep thats what I do so its like a 5 second boot up really

 

The biggest slowdown for a system is heavy anti-virus like Norton.

I think Vista's "Sleep" option is set to some funky sleep/hibernate setup, like sleep after I press the power button in the start menu, and then after 3 hours, the system hibernates. It only takes a few seconds to load 2048MB from the hard disks. That how I get 10 seconds.

 

Thats not really a fair comparison then...

 

Well... we are talking about from boot not from sleep. When you said it was 10 secs. that was deceiving.

 

Power button to desktop in just under 30 seconds, and about another 15-20 to load my autostart prgrams (avast, Azureus, Random Desktop, Notebook Hardware Control).