Win8.1 boots slower than Win7 ??

I have a new laptop with a new SSD and find that Windows 8.1 Pro boots slightly slower than Windows 7 Pro does on my 2-year old laptop with a slower SSD. Is this to be expected? I've already done the obvious things to try and speed boot times (removing bloatware, killing unnecessary services etc.) but am still surprised that even on a faster system Win8 seems slower overall.

 

I haven't done much Win7 SSD boot time benchmarking, but the Win8.1 machines I have, they boot nearly instantaneously. Windows 8+ utilize a "hybrid" hibernation when powered down, caching a minimal system state, so they boot very quickly. Even a hard drive boot is very quick.

If your system is booting slowly, it's possible for some reason Windows 8.1 can't properly write/read the minimized hibernation state.

 

Define "nearly instantaneously". It's not that mine's particularly slow -- it boots to logon screen in about 12 seconds overall -- but it's no faster than my Win7 machine that has slower hardware, which surprises me a bit.

 

It takes longer for the system to POST than it takes to boot Windows.

This is "normal" for any mid-range Windows 8 with SSD: Super Fast Windows 8 Boot Time With SSD (3.5 Secs.) - YouTube

 

My win 8.1 boots faster to login screen , no doubt about that.. After some effort I have two logins to choose from M$ account and local login.

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Based on what empirical test results? I love how other talk about boot faster but there is no real deal here to had and one likes to say they can perceive it is factual false to start out with. With a fast computer HDD or SSD the results are so minimal you benefit nothing really from it.

 

Well since we don't have any specs or if the O/S is factory loaded or clean install that makes it harder to know what kinda system it is to start with to know what exactly it should do or perform as. For one I think a clean install and just with the drivers loaded and O/S updated and where one to test it from that bases then one would get a clean results as to how each O/S boot time and speed could be compared but since this doesn't look like a clean install of either O/S that would make determining boot times and performance rocky at best to know how it works.

 

That's a surprise. I would've expected that all laptop OEMs would be using UEFI Fast Boot by now.

I've never actually seen my laptop POSTing when UEFI fast boot is turned on - it happens faster than split second it takes for the screen to turn on. In order to access the BIOS, I actually have to hold down the appropriate key while pressing the power button.

 

I guess it was down to unscientific expectations. I had expected to experience a small but noticeable increase in startup speed on a new Win8 machine with UEFI boot and SATA3 SSD compared to a Win7 machine with SATA2 SSD and slower RAM/CPU, all else being equal (and the two machines do have more or less the same applications installed). Instead I'm seeing marginally slower startup on the new machine. We're talking a couple seconds longer, maybe, and I'm certainly getting nowhere near those 3-4 second win8 startups that some people seem to brag about.