Windows 7 64-bit bootup in 20 seconds

figured you guys might enjoy this video of my Acer 5920G (core2duo 1.5ghz 2gb laptop, circa 2007) with a fresh install of Windows 64-bit booting in 20 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2eH1jBfsQY

I sure was impressed when I first started Windows 7 and I didn't realize how much of a impact having a fast-booting laptop would have on me. I use the laptop much more often now and I couldn't be happier with Windows 7. Vista would take 2+ minutes to boot. Kudos MS.

 

Don't post false video showing resuming from hibernation.

 

my computer is far better than yours and takes longer than 20 seconds to boot with win 7x64 pro. lies i say lies!


edit: oh yea its a resume... fail post.

 

7 is not faster at booting for me..

 

Hahaha it said resuming Windows. Bogus.

 

Try restart-time.
some of the faster ones restart in 30 seconds.

 

Start > type "msconfig" > Boot tab, Advanced Options > Check number of processors, set to two (assuming computer has a dual core CPU)

There's one little trick that speeds up Windows boot times, if anyone is interested.

 

god, that's one slow resume process. Mine takes about 10 seconds tops.

 

yeh my laptop takes about 5 seconds from sleep.

 

I can't see any speed gain using this trick. Will it be Windows 7 already uses 2 core speed when rebooting from the beginning. That's why I can't feel the changes?

 

This myth has been around for years. Windows already uses all the cores for bootup. This option is meant to be a debugging feature. E.G. you can downgrade a dual core to a single core.

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=2476

 

Your lappy is indeed very very slow compared to the 5 second one, but that's okay... lawlz

 

I think the video shows the computer coming out of hibernation, not sleep. Otherwise, 5 seconds wake time from sleep is not that fast.

 

This thread = fail.

 

You are resuming but not restarting the laptop

 

That's because Hibernation is different from Sleep. My laptop takes about a a second or two to come out of Sleep, but about 20 or so seconds to come out of Hibernation.

 

My laptop with a T6500, 4GB DDR3, and a 320GB 5200RPM HD goes from the "Starting Windows" boot screen to the login prompt in 20 seconds. It's not surreal.

 

except that it allways defaults to all cpu's and is just to tweak down for DEVELOPERS to test out.

so it's a little trick that does not speed up windows, but slow it down to test other hw configurations.

 

btw, want to enhance your "boot process" to be twice as fast? take out one gb of your ram..

win7 with an intel ssd or similar, and 1gb of ram means 4secs from hibernation back to working. but hibernation is not booting. and btw, vista and xp have 4secs in that very same configuration, too

 

It says my message is too short.

 

I haven't tested whether there were any performance gains, but I seemed to have noticed a faster boot time. Maybe it was just a placebo effect.

 

yep it was, and is documented as such. if you don't enter anything, it uses 2 cores on a core2duo, too.. (and 4 cores on a core2quad, etc.. just the max available on each system).

so it can't affect anything as your system defaults to the exact same setting.

 

Here's the real 20second bootup.
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i knew that was coming

 

lol.. i just can't help it. My old thread name was "windows 7 bootup in 20 seconds".

 

whatever my computer boots up instantly before I even turn it on... it reads my mind and knows when I want to start using. It also cooks me dinner and rubs my feet. beat that.

 

well, i read the title and just thought of your video

 

lol yeah right 20 seconds.

 

btw, when i boot up my windows (vista, win7, doesn't matter), after i see the desktop, my internet explorer loads in the same second you see the desktop, or directly when i clicked it (depends on if i put it to autostart of course).

so while your boot is fast, your to-usable is still slow compared to my ssd..


had to say that to feel good

 

How did you get it to boot that fast on an Acer Aspire One? Also, why do you have a Gateway BIOS?

Damn, you must have a freakin Velociraptor in that thing.

 

Nope. I'm not using Velociraptor in that thing, though it's one of the fastest 5400RPM hdd though. I'm using the stock 160GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue. I used gateway Bios to restore the LCD brightness table back to 10 levels. I can easily change the bios image to something else as well.

BTW.. the video was shot without using eboostr. Internet Explorer open instantly as well on my netbook with eboostr 3 program enabled. So it's almost the same as an SSD.

 

Damn, I timed mine, and it takes 28 from the bootloader to the desktop with all programs loaded. And that is a clean boot, with no programs on Startup.

 

Probably the owner of the post believes that shutdown the computer is click on the shutdown icon next of the lock computer icon. This icon puts your laptop to "hibernate", not shutting down...

If you want to shutdown the computer, go to the right arrow and then select the shutdown.

Just a little clarification.

 

except the shutdown icon in windows 7 actually displays what it does. E.g. the button will have "sleep" word on it. The default action for the shutdown button is changed by to shutdown.

 

almost, maybe.. still not the same (makes noise and dies when you drop the netbook).

but anyways, boot time nowadays largely doesn't depend on the disk, but on the actual hw and drivers, how they initialise.

 

LoL. the "reliability" and "noise" problem isn't that serious. I can't hear the hdd running and i've dropped my netbook from table hight like a million times already.

 

i can hear your drive from over seas here so it is a problem.. (greetings over to canada, nice place to live)

 

Urban myth. The settings are there to allow you to REDUCE the number of processors being used. The option exists for testing purposes only. If you use the default settings, Windows (all versions) will automatically use all of the processors and cores.

Details: http://www.peterprovost.org/blog/post/Speeding-Up-Vista-Boot-Time.aspx

Gary