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    Time from startup to looking at desktop?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ORLY, May 1, 2008.

  1. ORLY

    ORLY Notebook Consultant

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    After upgrading to my Vostro 1500 several days ago, I was impressed with the noticably faster time it takes to be looking at my desktop after pushing the power button. In fact, I timed it and it's 45 seconds :)
    Thought I would start a thread where people can post their times, as well as their notebook specs if not already in sig.
     
    ORLY, May 1, 2008
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  2. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    Mine is around 40 secs for boot up with sager 9262.

    RAM does make a lot of difference.I added a 512MB to the existing 256 of the old T42 and it's much faster in XP.
     
    The_Observer, May 1, 2008
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  3. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    I think last time I checked it was nearing 2 mintues+ with logon screen + some startup apps.
     
    gengerald, May 1, 2008
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  4. McGrady

    McGrady Notebook Virtuoso

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    35 seconds for me. specs in sig. btw, theres a ton of threads like this.
     
    McGrady, May 2, 2008
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  5. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    After a freshly defragged HD, i timed it at 32 seconds to the boot screen then another 10-15sec to log in and completely load my desktop
     
    flipfire, May 2, 2008
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  6. ORLY

    ORLY Notebook Consultant

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    After installing SP1 im now getting times of around 1min 15sec...
     
    ORLY, May 4, 2008
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  7. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Clean out the old SP1 files here and do a defrag. Superfetch is cleared out, so it might take time to get used to your habits
     
    flipfire, May 4, 2008
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  8. ravenmorpheus

    ravenmorpheus Notebook Deity

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    On my Acer Aspire 9302 with a 2.2ghz AMD Turion 64 CPU, 4gbs of RAM on the board and an nVidia Geforce Go 6100 GPU dual booting XP and Vista I get -

    30 or so seconds from pressing the power button to the desktop with XP.
    90+ seconds, possibly nearer 120 seconds with Vista and SP1 installed.
     
    ravenmorpheus, May 4, 2008
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  9. Bart Simpson

    Bart Simpson Notebook Consultant

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    Ah yes, the bi-daily startup time thread. Perhaps one of the mods should sticky one of these threads.
     
    Bart Simpson, May 4, 2008
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  10. ORLY

    ORLY Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the link flipfire
     
    ORLY, May 4, 2008
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  11. Lawrence

    Lawrence Notebook Evangelist

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    Yap... It's true :)

    Adding a RAM gives a huge difference.
     
    Lawrence, May 4, 2008
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  12. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    It takes exactly 48 secs from the time I press the power button to the desktop.

    I also have a Vostro 1500
    T5270 1.4 GHZ CPU
    2GB of Ram
    160GB HDD 5400 rpm
    128 meg nVidia 8400m GS
    Vista Home Premium w/SP1

    I'll be upgrading to 4GB's of memory in the next couple of days. I just placed an order with Newegg.com

    I'll post my results to see if it shortens the boot cycle.
     
    Rodster, May 4, 2008
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  13. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    30 Seconds With WinXP MCE SP3.
     
    Thomas, May 4, 2008
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  14. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    Windows XP on my desktop takes about the same.
     
    Rodster, May 4, 2008
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