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One of the articles I read regarding Windows 8 was the new improved way to speed up boot times.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2...windows-8.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj39H...layer_embedded
I installed the Windows 8 preview and I must say I was rather impressed with the boot time. To get to the login screen from power off it took me 7 seconds on a VM (No fancy SSD)
hopefully the final release is as fast as this.
What’s your boot up times?
SSD 1 Second after POST
PC (Velociraptor Drive) 5 Seconds after POST
PC (normal 7200RPM Drive) 9 Seconds after POST
Laptop 12 Seconds after POST
My windows 7 box's i've created for our music suite (non-domained) boot in 4 secs after the fog screen. (i3, 4gb ram corsair ssd)
Show off ^^Quote:
Originally Posted by glennda
always nice to gloat! the same machine on a normal hhd was around 14 secondsQuote:
Originally Posted by ihaveaproblem
Impressive:) Machines here take around 40 - 50 seconds on Win7..Quote:
Originally Posted by glennda
yeah the ones on the domain take around 25/30 (ssd version) and 40/50 with normal HDD. quick booting and login times has enabled us to turn the computers off after 15 mins of nobody logged in rather then have to leave them on during frees as they take forever to boot!Quote:
Originally Posted by ihaveaproblem
I've just tried this, 1 second after POST for initial switch on using an ssd, but oddly 4-5 seconds after POST if I do a restart.
nephilim got 1 second with an SSD and you're calling glennda a show off? =PQuote:
Originally Posted by ihaveaproblem
7-8 secs on a domained i5 machine with 8Gb RAM and a 60Gb SSD
Is this just to get to the logon screen? It's Applying Computer settings, the AV and roaming profiles that kill the logon time usually. Boot speed is pretty good on most hardware these days :)
Has any tracked the boot up times after you've started adding more than just the bare bones OS (previous versions always seemed fast until you added a little day to day bloat...)
My non domained machines which boot have our full music image including Cubase sibelius, av and all other bits required by them that is to a useable desktop. Domain machines are slightly slower.Quote:
Originally Posted by WasBigWheels
3-4 seconds with new SSD. My old dinosaur of a computer was like 2 minutes to boot.
No wonder it booted up quick.......its a VM....Quote:
Originally Posted by ihaveaproblem