Computer boot up time?

[JDgreen227]

How long does it take your computer to boot up and be ready to go online? I am talking about a complete start from the time you turn it on, log in using a password, and it is ready to connect to the Internet. I have a pair of 3 year old Toshiba laptops, both running Vista 32 bit, with all bloatware removed, and although they use a different processor, I can connect to DSL in 2:45 with one, and 3:15 with the second. Someone on another forum is bragging that his Dell will boot up in 40 seconds, and I want to tell him he is full of horse pooh. He claims his computer is not in hibernate or sleep mode, but will boot up from off in 40 seconds.

 

[Bird]

I haven't actually timed mine, but I can guarantee the time is closer to your times than any 40 seconds.:laughing: But it may not be a good comparison because I'm using an HP desktop with Windows 7 instead of a laptop.

 

[JDgreen227]

I haven't actually timed mine, but I can guarantee the time is closer to your times than any 40 seconds.:laughing: But it may not be a good comparison because I'm using an HP desktop with Windows 7 instead of a laptop.

I have a modded Dell 530 desktop with no bloatware, a huge hard drive and Vista 64 bit and that one takes 4:20. I will tell the braggart on the other site "Bird over on TBN says you are full of horse pooh...." :laughing:

Oh, I should have noted that the only thing I have running on all 3 Vista computers aside from what they came with, minus the bloatware, is Kaspersky Internet Security. No other programs, not even photo editing software.

 

[beppington]

Just tried it for this thread: 2 mins 28 seconds ... This is Win 7 64-bit quad-core (4 AMD Athlon II X4 650 Processors), 920 GB hard drive that went into service on Dec 13, 2011.

First thing I did was uninstalled all the crap that I'll never use, which was MOST of it!

12 seconds to shutdown

22 seconds until I saw "Starting Windows"

 

[k0ua]

Acer Aspire laptop 5750 windows 7 Home premium

From dead power off to seeing the desktop, going thru password login to the account was 45 seconds. Seeing the tractorbynet home page was 1min 45 seconds. I had to fight 2 other applications that loaded (softphone and another TAPI phone manager) that wanted login credentials perhaps loosing 5 to 10 seconds to get rid of them.
This is a pretty new and fast computer.

James K0UA

 

[beppington]

OK, I realized my Firefox home page was set to a home page that is offline right now. When changed that & decided to let Microsoft Security Essentials start itself (instead of being impatient & starting it manually, thinking it wasn't go to on it's own) & re-tried I got back to TBN in 1 min 53 sec.

I also have nothing at all in my Startup folder.

 

[Willl]

1:20.

Desktop with Windows XP and always on cable internet or whatever they call it.

 

[k0ua]

OK, I realized my Firefox home page was set to a home page that is offline right now. When changed that & decided to let Microsoft Security Essentials start itself (instead of being impatient & starting it manually, thinking it wasn't go to on it's own) & re-tried I got back to TBN in 1 min 53 sec.

I also have nothing at all in my Startup folder.

sounds like we are real close. mine also started Microsoft security essentials.
Windows 7 is faster to start than Vista from what I have seen. But I havent seen any web pages in 40 seconds.

 

[beppington]

3rd try

Turned off some junk in my System Configuration "Startup" list (never knew existed) & got it down to 1 min 46 secs.

That's probably as good as I can do.

Oh, 8 GB RAM.

 

[Bird]

OK, you made me curious, so I deleted browsing history and ran CCleaner and shut this contraption down. It's an old HP AMD Athlon 64 x 2 Dual Core processor 5600+, 3 GB RAM came with Vista but I later upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium.

So when I turned it back on, it said "Starting Windows" in 29 seconds, most of my desktop appeared in 1 minute, 4 seconds, and I was logged onto the Internet (10 meg DSL) in 2 minutes, 26 seconds.

So it actually booted up quicker than I thought it did.