I have Windows XP and Vista. XP boots much faster.

I have Vista on my 1 month old Acer laptop and XP on a 5 year old, second hand desktop. My Acer has 2 gigs of ram and a dual core processor. My desktop has 512 megs of ram and a single core Pentium 4 from when Pentium 4's were the fastest thing you could get.

Boot up time for the XP desktop is 30 seconds with ABSOLUTELY no tweaking what so ever. Resuming from standby is about 3 seconds.

On Vista, my boot up time is 1 minute with all the tweaking I can muster. Resuming from standby is like 10-15 seconds.

Where is the justice?

 

It really is luck of the draw. I run XP and Vista on the same computer (dual core, 4GB RAM), where you'd expect XP to boot faster, and it does. However, I have a friend in the same situation and his machine boots Vista faster!

I hear that some Vista startup issues are caused by it cacheing files to the RAM, which takes some time, especially as you increase your amount of RAM.

In terms of speeding things up, I imagine Acer have preinstalled many programs on your laptop, and this is slowing it down. Try uninstalling some of the ones you may not want or failing that at least using the msconfig utility to stop them starting automatically when you tun the computer on.

 

I wouldn't bother with any of that. I too have an Acer Aspire with Vista and XP installed. I've tweaked Vista to hell, uninstalled all the carp from Acer and any other unused apps.

Vista still doesn't boot up to the desktop in anything less than 90 seconds.

XP on the other hand gets to the desktop in about 30 seconds.

It seems you can do as much as you want to Vista but your boot time won't improve dramatically.

 

your comparing a clean XP to a bloated vista. A clean install of vista will get you boot times of 45seconds

Yes i know XP boots faster one way or the other

 

No I'm comparing a clean install of both Vista and XP...

My Vista has never booted up in times of less than 90 seconds no matter how much I've tweaked it, re-installed, done anything else to it.

I'd like to know how you guys get Vista to boot up in 45 seconds cos my Acer Aspire 9302 with an AMD Turion 64 2.2ghz CPU sure as hell can't do it.

 

That doesnt sound like a clean install of vista. Even my T2500 core duo achieves 45 second boot ups

Even on my bloated up 64bit T7500 system im still getting 45seconds

 

Does it really matter? Once it's up and running the two are the same. What's a few seconds faster boot mean anyways? The true performance is real time!

 

Wouldn't Vista boot faster after it's been used a few times? After a clean install it still has to defrag, and configure SuperFetch. It has been about a month since my clean install, and I think this Vista machine boots faster than ever.

But really...it doesn't matter. What does a few seconds faster tell you? IMO boot time should not be the main reason to select one OS over another.

 

I have Vista on my desktop. Boot times around 45 seconds.

 

Just hibernate instead. Resume time about 20 seconds in Vista SP1.

 

^^ Vista's start-up times are so bad that I just use hibernate/sleep. The problem is that after 60+ hours of uptime, Vista starts to go berserk on me. The OS is not without its problems.

 

Berserk? Like, what happens exactly?

 

You mean XP boots faster!? Amazing discovery you made.
My Vista 32 laptop boots in <50 secs and that's with AV and WiFi in startup.

 

So the fact that XP boots faster than Vista on some machines means what exactly? Does that confirm that XP is truly better? These threads get more and more ridiculous by the day.

 

I use hibernate on my HP laptop for some months now, total XP uptime over 600 hours,and not a single glitch.
The first time I hibernated on my sager, VISTA,poof,problems. Explorer crashing,IE crashing,stuttering when browsing etc.
Clean vista install.

 

Vista is the new Coke.

 

I guess that's just the way it goes.

 

With my tweaking (boot defrag script thanks to NBR) and no AV, my Asus F8 boots to desktop and sidebar in 35-40 seconds on AC, a little slower on battery. I have switched my dual-booters to default to Vista; the more I use Vista, the more I like it. The deal-cincher for me was how well Vista handled sound on my (now sold) Dell 1520. Sound in XP stuttered and the headphone jack had static in it - no sound problems at all in Vista. And, the whole boot-up time thing is oversold - I hit the power button on my ASUS then go get some pretzels and pistachios - its ready to go by the time I sit down....

 

it probably is all the stuff vista has to cache in the memory....I have vista ultimate...I slick streamed the dvd install with vlite and now my boot time is around 35 seconds....given it doesn't have all of the windows components.

 

Well, I'm not terribly surprised.

However, I have a 30 second boot time on Vista, so you could probably do better. Specs in sig. Do you defrag HD and boot files? Manage your startup programs?

 

My laptop tries to eat me.

 

Yep.

I'll try using vLite to do some slipstreaming and tweaking once SP1 is more widely used.

 

In 3 months, the XP's boot time will have trippled while Vista's won't have moved.

 

I believe Microsoft intended people to put their computers to sleep rather than shutting down their computer all the way. Which would explain why the shutdown button defaults to sleep and that's why they got rid of the old shutdown window

I sleep my computers because that still allows me to remote connect to them. Now they never sleep as they are Folding 24x7

Honestly, you don't save that much energy using shutdown over sleep.

 

In that case, they shouldn't have made going to sleep and resuming from sleep so freaking long in Vista compared to XP. It takes like 10 seconds to sleep or resume from sleep on my laptop with vista and just a few seconds with my old, underpowered XP laptop.

 

my vista wake up from sleep in 2-3 seconds, always, whether before or after SP1...

 

heres a clip of my x64 vista loading. Its abit bloated now since i got a lot of programs installed .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8DykP8DLwQ

MSN is the last thing that loads which finishes at about 1:04 . I also didnt swipe my finger fast enough on login so that took abit longer

Rougly 1min to load up all my crap and ready to go

 

Well its a clean install now and I've tweaked it again and it still takes upwards of 60 seconds, even as much as 95 seconds to boot up. I just forgot to mention in my post that I have also clean installed it...

 

Same, but then again, I fail to see how 10 seconds rather than 3 or 60 rather than 45 is gonan change anything in your life

 

Well, I guess your laptop is slower than mine

Honestly, there isn't much help for someone who feels the need to rant complain about 10 seconds vs "a few seconds". If your life is that much of a rush, then just switch back to XP and get it over with.

 

My resume time in Vista is very quick.

 

Just in case people want a comparison, my Ubuntu install boots in under 30 seconds. My XP install boots in about 30-35 seconds(this is with it screaming reinstall).
As far as shutdown, Ubuntu shuts off in 9 seconds, compared to XP's minute(or more).

 

My vista boots in 32 seconds blah blah blah

 

My Vista boots in 45 seconds... What is the big deal? It's starting to get REALLY tiring hearing people nitpick every single aspect of Vista. It's not perfect, but what is? I find it more solid and useful than xp.

 

ok for me from powering on my pc, to logging on (yes i had to type fast ), and all start up programs loading total time is 1:15 min tops.

 

heh....on a really clean install of Vista on my Asus G1s (like only two games installed and that's it) it boots up in like I'd say 25-35 seconds easily. My Ubuntu install takes up to a minute usually which is ironic considering that it should be much faster. Oh well.

 

I wonder how fast itll be on my laptop (in mysig) this summer?

 

My Vista and Ubuntu times are just about equal.

 

I stopped using Avast and installed NOD32, now my Vista Boots around 15secs most of the time.

 

My Gentoo install boots in 10 seconds flat - what now??!!?! :/

 

Sweeeet.

 

My Phoenix BIOS boots in 1 second. Not the best OS in the world though..