Your windows xp boot time

[littlegohan]

mine is aobut 50seconds

note:the "boot time" is the time for the whole cold boot process

this means you record time immdeiately after pushing the power on button and stop at the user login screen

looking foward to see you guys' results

 

[potz]

about 30 seconds... including that looooong time for the stupid promise raid bios. without it, probably 20 seconds.

 

[Saltin]

Do a search on the Microsoft Download site, or on google, for a file named Boot_vis.exe
It is a Microsoft utility geared towards optimizing your boot times. On systems where it normally takes more than 30 seconds, you notice the biggest gains. You won't be disappointed.

My boot time is 15 seconds from power up. P4 1.5 with 256 RDRAM. I didnt notice any gains from boot_vis. But on my P2 400 it shaved about 10-15 seconds off the boot time.

 

[JediHacker]

0 seconds

hehe no xp

my win 98 boots in 45 seconds speed

 

[btvillarin]

Using the Trace feature in BootVis, I was timed at 21.96 seconds without ZoneAlarm starting automatically, and 23.19 seconds with it. Great stuff!

 

[dionx]

exactly 35 secs. see my sig for my rig to compare specs.

 

[sMashPiranha]

When I was running XP it did 40 seconds, my extra IDE controller held it up for 5 seconds or so.

 

[jwells777]

Ok....that bootvis utility has got to be one of the cooler things that microsoft has put out. Anyway 16.55 seconds for me....much better than I thought.

 

[Aenygma]

50 seconds on the nose. I actually boot about 10 seconds slower now, than under 98se

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

15.8 seconds on win98se

 

[AKA]

It would help if you guys posted your computer speed, memory and if you have a network card or controller cards installed. Just so everyone can gauge their comparison to the right post.

I know some of you have it already in your Rig information, but if you wont take the time to post it some of us arent going to take the time to look at your Rig.

It takes me 60seconds from power on to my desktop with no hour glass.

I have a Network card for my local network and dsl.
Have a Ultra66 Promise controller
1.2ghz Celeron2
640mb memory

 

[CtrlAltDel]

mine is 52 seconds cold to desktop...........i have two nics(one for lan and one for $hitty -a$s att cable.........chk my specs i ran bootvis one time and i had to go to ,recovery console and fix it......i got bsod...........but its still a sweet program and chk out this my winxp home turns off in 12 seconds from the time i clik turn off till when its off..........cool huh i got that hook up from here!!thanks guys

 

[btvillarin]

Once again, since A.K.A. asked - 23 seconds from BIOS to login to hourglass stopping

<U>System Specs:</U>
TBird 850
Asus A7V133
2x256MB PC133 SDRAM
ATI Radeon 32MB SDR
SB Live Value
3Com 3C905B
IBM 75GXP 30GB
WD600AB 60GB
HP CDRW 9150i

 

[busterG]

The last 3 computers i have built after using boot vis (times according to boot viz)

Athlon 950
Shuttle ak31a
No Network
No Modem
2 ide devices
No USB devices
13.10 Seconds

Athlon 1.2ghz
Shuttle ak31a
No Network
No Modem
2 ide devices
No USB devices
12.30 Seconds

Athlon 1.4@1.564
Shuttle AK31A
6 Ide Devices
Gigabit Network Card
3 USB Devices
Raid Subsytem
54 Seconds (25 Seconds of this is network delay)

 

[CTho9305]

tbird 700, 256mb pc100, 30 gig 5400rpm drive:
~40 seconds boot
~10 seconds shutdown

edit: oops. 40 seconds to desktop.

 

[Aenygma]

Well, it also depends on what ppl have that load into memory as well. I mean my daughters PC with 98se boots in about 8 seconds, but she does not have much on it.


Anyway, for my 50 second!! <<that really is way to long XP rig here are it's specs.

K7-T mobo
1.4gig T-Bird
768 MEGS cas-2 Rammage
1 Netgear nic card for DSL
2 WD HDD's
16X DVD
24X CDRW
Audigy Soundcard

What loads on startup is just Zonealarm

Bear in mind nothing in this setup has changed from when this rig ran 98se

Under 98se it booted in 40 seconds...so XP "boots 10 seconds SLOWER for me"

 

[erikiksaz]

concerning all those with sub 20 second boot up times, are you guys timing the boot up the INSTANT you press the power button? No not when the bios screen's up, but the INSTANT you press that doggurn button.

 

[Aenygma]

I am doing it from instant I push button. Still I think 50 seconds is wayyyyy to long.

 

[btvillarin]

To time, I just used BootVis to trace the next boot. So, it's not exactly a cold boot, but a restart.
If you happen to have an ADSL connection, that might be why you're having a 50 second boot. I only have ZoneAlarm starting up in the background, and that's it. To fix a 50 second boot, read my tip about the DSL connection:
http://www.geocities.com/btvillarin/Performance_XP.htm

 

[mlrobins88]

I was having really slow boot time until i ran networking wizard was 50 sec now22 sec.

 

[littlegohan]

i already ran bootvis before I posted
How can you guys have such a fast boot time?

The only thing that is wrong in my computer is the cpu (duron 750)
i have 512 sdram and an ibm 60gxp

so why is my boot time so pathetic?


I mean, it takes about 4 seconds just for my geforece 2mx to load (cold boot)


(btw I use cable and I have 2 network cards, is this a probleM?) note: the boot time shown on boot vis is INACCURATE, that time is way shorter than your actual boot time, if you dont believe me, time your boot process with a stop watch. The time shown on bootvice for my comp is 28sec, but realisitcally is a minute

 

[CtrlAltDel]

to the guy with 8 second boot time:
affectionately your full of $hit man...no way that rig boots in 8 seconds!!
also i have 2 nics and my video card is oced and i have windowblinds!!!!!!!!!!

like i said dont6 take it personal but come on your not talking to your daughters barbies at tea time!!


8 second boot........

what a load!!

you almost had me man!!


your good!!




yea maybe your palm pilot boots in 8 seconds!!!!



peace out!

 

[CtrlAltDel]

also an edit:
turn off time is actually 9 seconds!!

 

[pkypkypky]

linkified

let me know if this is okay to post. going to try it out and post my before/after times.

 

[dukdukgoos]

BootVis says 16.85, not optimized.