Slow boot time - VPCEH1L0E?

Hi, I bought the below laptop last week and I'm surprised by the slow boot time - average time from power on to chrome browser loading is about 1m 15s.

I don't have any anti virus loading on startup, no iTunes etc etc.

Am I just been unrealistic or is something not as it should be?

Cheers.

Intel® Core™ i3-2310M processor
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Memory: 4GB
Hard drive: 320GB
SONY VPCEH1L0E 15.5" Laptop - Black at cheap prices | PC World

 

Sounds quite normal to me. You are using a mechanical HDD + i3 CPU - what boot time did you expect? 15 sec ??

~ 1 minute or even 1,5 minutes is quite normal, depending on fragmentation, run-on-startup programs and services, etc.

My boot time is usually around 50 seconds, but sometimes even 2 minutes. The shortest I've seen was around 35 seconds, but this is nothing you can expect on daily basis. So for your configuration - 1 - 1,5 minutes is absolutely normal.

If it bothers you that much - go for SSD But honestly - I restart/shut down my PC once a week on average ... how much do you think I care whether it takes half, one or 2 minutes You should be doing the same if you are living in the 21st Century

Anyway - if there is anything you can do to keep your boot times as short as possible is take regular care of fragmentation and run boot time defragmentation every now and then. I can recommend you PerfectDisk 12!

 

XP used to boot in around 50 secs on my old machine - that's the only reason why I questioned speed.

Was just worried that if boot is slow, maybe other things are slower than should be too.

Thanks for the answer and tips. I can stop losing sleep over it now

 

Yes its absolutely normal. Most laptops take a minute to boot Windows 7. Don't worry

 

XP ----> A whole other thing with both advantages and disadvantages

Nothing's wrong with your new laptop - enjoy it and don't worry.

But one "new" thing compared to XP is that you practically don't need to shut it down - I only sleep or hibernate mine and just restart every now and then whenever an update or installation requires it (like once a week or two), etc. This is how it is designed to work

And as I said - use a good defragmenting utility, PerfectDisk is one excellent way to go!

 

My FZ (Win 7 64-bit) boots to the desktop in 30-35 secs. I don't have unnecessary start up programs (Antivirus is ON).

Remove the third party (non-Microsoft) programs from start up that you don't need.

 

Most laptops take some time to boot Windows 7

 

No need for any third party application to defrag the boot files. See my signature line below for details on how to use the tools built into Win7 or Vista to do this.

Gary