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    Post your Windows 7 reboot times

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by illmatic8, Jan 11, 2009.

  1. illmatic8

    illmatic8 Notebook Consultant

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    Got this idea from another forum, thought it'd be pretty cool to start one here

    1. Download this file
    2. Right click on it, select properties and click Unblock on the General tab.
    3. Run the file
    4. Close your programs
    5. Click OK on the script's dialog, it'll reboot and tell your full reboot time once you're back on the desktop.

    Here's mine on my first try, I guess I could get a little lower by removing some startup icons, but I really don't care, maybe if someone de-throned's me I might have to :D

    [​IMG]
     
    illmatic8, Jan 11, 2009
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  2. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    heh, i'm identical.. :) so much for expensive ssd's.. :)

    but i guess with some fiddling around i should get better..
     
    davepermen, Jan 12, 2009
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  3. jcovelli

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    y reboot times? how about just regular boot times in which case mine is 17 seconds.
     
    jcovelli, Jan 12, 2009
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  4. Andy

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    You can try running BootTimer to measure boot times.
     
    Andy, Jan 12, 2009
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  5. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    ordinary pc's and espencially laptops shouldn't get booted anymore anyways. standby/hibernate rules :)

    and thus, the only thing to care about is the occational reboot.

    and, it's much easier to measure reboot times => way to go :)
     
    davepermen, Jan 12, 2009
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  6. illmatic8

    illmatic8 Notebook Consultant

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    Cuz some of the improvements in 7 over Vista are better shutdown times and better boot times, so a reboot test would be a great way to test both.
     
    illmatic8, Jan 12, 2009
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  7. jisaac

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    49 seconds on my wd6400aaks
     
    jisaac, Jan 12, 2009
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  8. mooler

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    Mine was 82 seconds. Maybe this is due to the fact that I have dual boot menu and logon screen?
     
    mooler, Jan 12, 2009
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  9. illmatic8

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    Yup, sure is
     
    illmatic8, Jan 12, 2009
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  10. Full-English

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    99 seconds here, pretty shocking really, but thats with dual boot menu and password.
     
    Full-English, Jan 12, 2009
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  11. MaX PL

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    35 seconds here.
     
    MaX PL, Jan 12, 2009
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  12. Apollo13

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    These times really don't mean much unless you have a comparitively fresh XP or Vista install to compare them to. It's all quite dependent on hardware otherwise. Perhaps if everyone included their hardware (particularly hard drive) along with the times, boot times could be useful without an XP/Vista comparison, but just as numbers without hardware or comparisons on the same hardware listed, they're meaningless.
     
    Apollo13, Jan 12, 2009
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  13. davepermen

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    to make autologon, type "control userpasswords2" into the prompt and configure as needed.

    my 56 seconds are on a hp consumer desktop with quadcore, 4gb ram, raid0 2x64gb ssd. i see 35secs above and think i have to measure where my issues are :)
     
    davepermen, Jan 12, 2009
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  14. mrXniick

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    46 Seconds for me. I will install it on my EEE 1000h sometime in the future and test it on that as well.
     
    mrXniick, Jan 12, 2009
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  15. Diablo

    Diablo Metalhead

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    care to elaborate on how you enable the autologon?
     
    Diablo, Jan 12, 2009
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  16. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    by .. "type "control userpasswords2" into the prompt "?

    and then take out the "users must enter a username and password?

    now, that wasn't too hard, was it? :)

    i like btw, that, besides my user, there is an "alphauser" haha :)
     
    davepermen, Jan 13, 2009
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  17. jisaac

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    Just click on the account you want to use autologin on and deselect user must enter a username and password
     
    jisaac, Jan 13, 2009
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  18. Diablo

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    ah...i was thrown off because when i've set up an autologin before, i've set the password for the user account and rebooted and it worked. i was wondering if it was the same thing.
     
    Diablo, Jan 13, 2009
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  19. emike09

    emike09 Overclocking Champion

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    42 seconds. Not bad.
     
    emike09, Jan 13, 2009
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  20. notebookhelp

    notebookhelp Notebook Consultant

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    System specs: hpdv5000t

    T2500 @ 2.00GHz
    NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400
    2GB RAM
    5400 RPM HDD
    Clean Install

    Code: 
    [COLOR="DarkGreen"][B]Windows Experience Index:[/B][/COLOR]

Processor Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz --- [B]4.5[/B]
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB --- [B]4.9[/B]
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 (Prerelease - WDDM 1.0) --- [B]2.2[/B]
Gaming graphics 895 MB Total available graphics memory --- [B]3.5[/B]
Primary hard disk 7GB Free (17GB Total) --- [B]2.0 [/B]
    Reboot in 59 seconds.
     

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    notebookhelp, Jan 16, 2009
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  21. BinkNR

    BinkNR Knock off all that evil

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    Seconded. The only time I reboot is when installing updates. Hail sleep and hibernate.
     
    BinkNR, Jan 16, 2009
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  22. mailxiaodan

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    Reboot improvement over Vista would be uttermost important anyway.. Vista is barely tolerable.....
     
    mailxiaodan, Jan 17, 2009
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  23. ivar

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    Mine is also 82 sec (on a 1.1GHz pentium-M and 1.8" HDD with <30MBs ultraportable). :)
     
    ivar, Feb 19, 2009
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  24. Slaughterhouse

    Slaughterhouse Knock 'em out!

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    67 seconds for me.
     
    Slaughterhouse, Feb 19, 2009
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  25. 0.0

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    Restart times all seem a bit subjective ie hardware, services even a different device driver can make a difference so I am not sure what is being achieved here. :confused:
     
    0.0, Feb 20, 2009
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  26. Slaughterhouse

    Slaughterhouse Knock 'em out!

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    Ok what the hell...my old Dell M140 gets 44 seconds and my brand new NP2096 with all the latest hardware gets 67 seconds?
     
    Slaughterhouse, Feb 20, 2009
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  27. ivaniker

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    114 seconds. pretty bad seeing that i got a pretty good system.
     
    ivaniker, Feb 23, 2009
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  28. x64Man

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  29. gary_hendricks

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    pretty neat. but im on XP atm :/
    will post back when i switch to win7 :)
     
    gary_hendricks, Feb 23, 2009
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  30. Sewje

    Sewje Notebook Geek

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    I agree rebooting is pointless with Hibernate in Vista or Windows 7, it just works so good and usually boot the computer up in 15 sec, ready for action, unlike a clean reboot.
    Get with the times, start using Hibernate.
     
    Sewje, Feb 25, 2009
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  31. notebookhelp

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    I've just finished installing Windows 7 RC 7100 and the boot time is drastically increased from build 7000. I cannot boot in less than 86 seconds now (vs 59 seconds before). Is anyone else having this problem too?
     
    notebookhelp, May 24, 2009
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  32. d4nz0r

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    Your guys' boot times seem really long to me.

    I would estimate mine at about 30 secs or so. But as others have said, I only restart my comp like once a week. Speaking of which, recovering from Sleep is instant in Win7, compared to the ~10 sec loading screen half the time I open my lid in Vista.
     
    d4nz0r, May 24, 2009
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  33. jackluo923

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    I get 25-30seconds reboot time. 5-10 seconds shutdown time and 20 seconds boot time.

    I'm on Acer Aspire One netbook.

    My wake from hibernation time is under 10 seconds.
     
    jackluo923, May 25, 2009
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    sonyfxa36, May 26, 2009
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