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    win 7 boot time

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by compsavvy, May 14, 2010.

  1. compsavvy

    compsavvy Notebook Enthusiast

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    I feel my studio 1558 i5 540m, 7200 rpm hdd has a pathetic boot performance.

    Took 1min initially, cut down to 40 sec by microsoft utilities(bootperf), but back again to 1min boot.

    I am running factory installed os (with crap removed) and have not clean installed.

    Please post your boot times and mention if it is a clean install.
     
    compsavvy, May 14, 2010
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  2. woofer00

    woofer00 Wanderer

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    Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and Win7HPx64 both get to the login screen about 20 seconds after GRUB. Lucid goes to desktop in about 5, Win7 in about 10.
     
    woofer00, May 14, 2010
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    hurley81388 Notebook Enthusiast

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    wow the core i7 must be super beastly. i have a year-old intel p8600, 4 gigs of RAM, 512 mb ATI 4570 and my win7 64-bit studio 15 takes about a minute to get to the login screen

    what is microsoft utilities bootperf? did a bing search on this and couldn't find anything
     
    hurley81388, May 14, 2010
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  4. iafzal3

    iafzal3 Notebook Evangelist

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    I did a fresh install and my boot time to get to the password screen takes me about 45 secs
     
    iafzal3, May 14, 2010
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  5. MoInSTL

    MoInSTL Notebook Consultant

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    I had 79 or 83? processes running before a clean install. I can't remember, but it was high. I haven't timed it, but it boots fast.
     
    MoInSTL, May 14, 2010
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    iafzal3 Notebook Evangelist

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    I had about 79 processes running just after boot and after fresh install they wer cut to about 60. Now I have 65 after I installed a few programs
     
    iafzal3, May 16, 2010
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    OneCool I AM NUMBER 67

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    OneCool, May 16, 2010
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  8. compsavvy

    compsavvy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sorry for my ignorance
    Should have done some research

    @woofer00
    I am filled with awe after hearing of the performance of the i7
     
    compsavvy, May 17, 2010
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    theoak Notebook Consultant

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    From a pure cold boot ... I am around 45 seconds. A good defrag may help your boot times too ...
     
    theoak, May 19, 2010
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    That was pretty much the day I got it, immediately after the clean install and minimal drivers. After piling on updates aero and background crap it's slower now. The time from grub2 to the login prompt on win7 is 27 seconds, then another 27 from putting in my password to being mostly started up (including startup programs and 7 gadgets). That last 27 seconds used to be closer to 10. Time from powering on to grub is maybe 4-5 seconds?

    Sorry I can't use boottimer.exe to be more precise, but it doesn't seem to work if you're not using the windows bootloader.
     
    woofer00, May 19, 2010
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  11. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Here is my boot time for my Inspiron 1720. Loading off a Dell/Samsung 256GB SSD w/TRIM.

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    DR650SE, May 20, 2010
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  12. theoak

    theoak Notebook Consultant

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    I can't get boottimer to work either ... it does not come up when I reboot.
     
    theoak, May 20, 2010
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  13. compsavvy

    compsavvy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Myself could not get bootimer to work
    It did not appear on startup

    @dr650se
    great boot time


    Just discovered that Win 7 has inbuilt boot diagnostics
    Here is what I did

    Event viewer> applications and services logs>microsoft>windows>diagnostics-performances>operational

    Scanned the logs to find entries regarding boot time
    Went to details tab

    I am posting my current boot time:
    BootTime 49039
    MainPathBootTime 29839
    BootKernelInitTime 35
    BootDriverInitTime 1307
    BootDevicesInitTime 3366
    BootPrefetchInitTime 58632
    BootPrefetchBytes 839335936
    BootAutoChkTime 0
    BootSmssInitTime 9225
    BootCriticalServicesInitTime 1101
    BootUserProfileProcessingTime 4449
    BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 0
    BootExplorerInitTime 4733
    BootNumStartupApps 7
    BootPostBootTime 19200

    If possible, post your logs as well
     
    compsavvy, Jun 7, 2010
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