Post your Windows 7 Boot Time (tweaks allowed)

Ah thanks!

That's odd....works jsut fine using img tags in the other forum I post at. Didn't realize I needed to take the tail off here.

 

This msconfig thing jumped me up on the list.

 

Utility doesn't work when you multiple accounts on the PC, or you have to use a password?

On my desktop BTW.

 

In properties unblock and select run as admin. I also placed it to its own folder off the root drive too...........

 

Thanks, working now. And my desktop isn't great.

My desktop is a tad slow compared to my laptop, maybe it's NVIDIA's drivers. Before I installed 195.62 after I installed Windows 7, it actually booted a little quicker.

Desktop:


Hitachi HDT72503.

 

as i said before, my laptop will sure be slow.. 47sec here.. no clue yet how to fix it. but the old 2710p was much faster at boot. something of it's hw is really blocking much..

 

Maybe you have Intel Matrix Storage Manager? Together with ICH9 driver it was making my boots much slower.

 

Here is mine with startup and services off and then on....

19 sec top.. 28 normal with print prog etc..

Throw me on the list...I will be working all day to try and reach that top spot from 2nd but know better....I have never even seen a system with a 13 second boot.

Not really fair though because I timed it normally with full start until network confirmation which is 17 seconds regardless. Its those darn background programs.

Anyone know of a safe site to tweak the services entries as this seems to be the main source of increased times?


Arrrrhhh 0x0000425 exception computer is dead.....thats what happenswhen you play around I guess. Figures... Now if I had a DVD player on this little system I could throw it in and do a system repair but no....gotta create a USB Install of Win7Ult64bt to do that.. eheheheh

Ummm I guess this drastically affects my present boot time.

 

it was always quite slow, unrelated to the actual storage media in.. but i'll try..

 

now the measured boot time is much worse. but the actual os is up and running waayyy before the app reports time.. strange.. well, i don't care not that i boot often anyways..

 

Short stroking apparently does help out. I went to 128GB for the primary partition and got 2 seconds better on the boot time, now down to 33.134

 

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Toughbook Digitizer tablet Cf-19
W7U 32GB Samsung ssd Core Duo 1.06GHz 4 gb ram



Alex

 

Tweaked

 

My time, with everything still loading per normal setup. (Pidgin, Aero enabled, QuietHDD, MSSE, PCTools Firewall, IDT Audio panel, RMClock, SmartRAM, et al).

37.424 seconds, and I forgot to unblock program to prevent 'Are you sure you want to..." prompt at boot.

Run on system in Sig line.

Screenie taken with the Snip-it tool. Why had I never used that before?

 

Took a bit of tweaking on my new Intel ssd but well.....I think we have a new winner on the time board eheheh...

Before the drive, I never believed this could be done.

 

Fast enough for me not to have any complaints about it.

 

Did a clean install... tweaked and untweaked.

 

Excellent times....almost at that infamous 11 second mark! eheh

 

I think the shortest amount I've gotten is 75 seconds or something, but there's a lot of odd hardware in my laptop in my sig, along with a good number of programs. I don't really mind it because I don't really restart all that often anyway, and if these programs don't start on startup, they'd never be run anyway

 

If I may, take a quick look at your startup programs by:

1. Pressing WinKey + R
2. Type 'msconfig'
3. Go to startup...

Are there alot of programs installed there? Can u use snippingtool and send a pik?

 

Not sure why I can't get this to work for me, lol. But to offer a super inaccurate measurement I'm getting about 50 seconds boot running on battery and having to type in my password at boot super quick. That is just with my original config. I felt like with Vista I got like 10 seconds faster, but it's probably since I have a new clean install.

 

Yes....its an all new monster when you try and get it to work with passwords. Look around and you can probably find all kinds of tips to reduce your boot time in several ways.

 

There's not even a lot in there; but I can give my own list of startup items.

Pidgin
MSE
RivaTuner (shown)
Desktop Gadgets (off sidebar.exe)
Touchpad driver
Nvidia Display Color Profile
Fingerprint Driver (and probably the small software with it so I don't need to type a password in)
BatteryCare
Battery Bar (These are different programs)

...i actually don't remember everything that starts with Windows anymore, i think thats everything I know of.


Edit: 99.325 Seconds.

 

And I see Skypw, Zune, Office One Note and others...

In my start file, I have my graphics driver (gfxpers), sidebar and thats it right now.... How many of those programs can be removed because you start them manually in any case?

Just a thought but 99 seconds is unheard of.

Another thing, how many automatic updates are running from all these programs?

 

None of those are automatic updaters actually.

I'll try disabling all of it and see what happens.

 

my netbook is about 50 seconds and my main laptop is about 65

 

I guess i'm missing out... it sure didn't feel that long though.

Lenovo T500
250GB Seagate 5400 RPM drive.
2.53GHZ C2D P8700

 

Thats because the actual boot time is from press of the buttons until the background loading is complete even after the desktop is there and useable.

Even if it were a minute...wouldn't it be nice to cut that in half?? Autoupdaters, startups and background software that you may be using, along with passwords, contribute to that 80 seconds.

 

I think disabling the password is more of a security risk if you ever happen to lose the laptop, although I do know that there's easy/various ways around the Windows password if its ever lost. Its useful enough for keeping people off of it.


Never did get around to disabling start up programs though.

 

My hdd was 73.61 seconds. 250GB 5400 RPM Seagate hdd.

Now with my intel x25-m G2 80GB ssd with pretty much a similar start up, went down to 27 seconds.

Not really noticing much snappiness elsewhere though.

 

Congrats on the boot time. Is it a fresh boot time right after installation or after you installed other things such as virus programs and whatnot?

 

It was after I installed all my previous programs so I can match similar situations.

 

If I may suggest, check your startup programs in msconfig and see what is running that needn't be in your opinion. As well, do your programs auto update at all?

 

My startup programs are pretty minimal. Drivers, thinkpad power manager, antivirus, etc. I don't really have anything such as steam, aim, messengers, etc. On start up. I just went and disabled quicktime/itunes and java updater and adobe reader.

What do you mean with auto update?

It shaved off like 1-2 seconds disabling some of the start up programs. I'm not sure exactly, because I had to type my password in this time. It was 27.3 as opposed to 27.5 before (but didn't type my pass before)

 

Ya....password management always seems to be a killer in the process. With respect to the virus program, someone else told me to try MS Security Essentials which work great! I have found that they only add 2-3 seconds which is alot less than the others. Depending on the virus program, your start time can increase alot.

Can I ask if you can take a shot of your msconfig start file and throw it on here?

See below as there are alot of key things that will help you do exactly what you are trying to do.

 

better way to find out what's causing it is to record a video so we see which boot part actually is taking how long. and on which parts the hdd light is actually glowing/blinking, and when it's not.

slow win7 boots are mostly caused by some hw/driver that takes long to initialize. sadly, except for taking out that piece of hw, there aren't much options to fix it (but a new driver might help on occasion)

 

Is there not a program that does that???

 

there is something that can log your boots, and based on that you can then see where most time is spent. but so far, it didn't help to reduce boot time on my laptop.

on my desktop, i reduced boot time from 2.5minutes to 20secs (in vista days, with raid0 of mtrons) by stripping out all sort of hw like card readers and such.

 

That's too much for a SSD. I have that time almost. Bootvis would help if on XP.

 

there is something like bootvis for vista and win7... i just don't find it anymore.. *crap*

 

Bootvis was the best IMO. I tried to search for bootvis for W7 or something like that but I had no success. If you could find it, that would be gr8.

 

i think it was winbootinfo? looks like what i have in my memory at least..

 

Here's my startup.

 

Windows startup time can be found in event viewer. There's no need to use extra software to do that.

 

It is. Found it. Thanks

 

how are you guys gettting such great boot times. i have all four of my processors running and i just upped the ram, but i still can't times near the 30s.

 

Most of the low times are a result of starting from the beginning with a fresh install, followed by understanding what does and does not increase times.

Most of the time you will find updaters active which slow the heck out of your machine. I understand there may be literature available that may help you with exactly that issue.

 

With intel SSD.

 

Yup...an ssd helps...not only Intel though.

 

thanx for the quick reply my boot times are not terrible. I'll just wait for the prices to drop on a SSD.