ReBoot Time

[Brink]

Hello Everyone,

Thanks to sidney1st we have a great way to measure the ReBoot-Time (restart time) for our systems.

You can see how to here: How to See What Your Boot Up Time is in Vista

Here's my ReBoot-Time:


Running Processes: 41
Started Services: 36
Automatic logon


Please post your times as well,

Shawn Brink

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello sidney1st,

I did mine with no problems; used copy/paste to do the whole thing!
Mine includes a secure Ctrl+Alt+Dlt Logon.
And it looks like I'm the first to post after Brink...



Thanks Shawn for adding the sticky!


Later Ted

 

[Reloaded]

CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (2100 MHz)<br />
Memory: 2 x 2048 MB A-Data DDR2-800 (5-5-5-18-2T)<br />
Running processes: 24<br />
Started Services: 33
Time: 60 seconds

 

[acdcfan]

Hi ppl
Did your boot time become longer after installing Windows dream scene and sounds....?
Mine certainly has, it is quite noticeable....

 

[Brink]

LOL,

Looks like I have some more tweaking to do.

 

[sidney1st]

That's the result my old Inspiron 9300 is giving, i can't do better for this one.
Shawn, did you stop automatic boot defrag? I think it can give you few seconds.

View attachment 3894

 

[Brink]

Hi Sid,

Yeah, I disabled all that stuff. I haven't had time to really dig into the BIOS from this new motherboard to learn all of it's new feature vs my old one's yet.

Plus, I need to dig through the services and processes some more to do a little trimming.

Shawn

 

[dmex]

Interesting...

I have yet to tweak or modify this system yet, It has all the programs you would ever use installed.

Im surprised without tweaking I get about the same startup time as the more powerful computers.

Here are the specs for the computer I just ran it on...

Pentium D 3ghz (dual-core)
2GB DDR2-533 RAM
XFX 8500GT NVidia
120GB SATA HDD
Vista Ultimate X86

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello all,

This has a lot to do with it doesn't it?



Here are my specs.

Athlon 64 x2 6000+
4 1GB DDR2 RAM in dual (cheap)
NVIDIA 512MB 9600GT
500GB 7200RPM WD
Running Processes: 50
Started Services: 62
Secure logon.

From a cold start I am on a working desktop in less than 60 seconds!


Later Ted

 

[TimUnrue]

Here is mine:


I am going to enable automatic logon and see how much that will improve it by later.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello TimUnrue,

I am wondering myself if it will make any difference?
Maybe I'll give it a temporary try also, at a later time!

I am going to enable automatic logon and see how much that will improve it by later.

I just "tweaked" a second off of mine, I changed it above.


Later Ted

 

[BigEasy18]

For some reason I thought it would be slower, so :D
Running Processes: 52

 

[TimUnrue]

Well, after applying a few more tweaks, and messing around with some settings randomly, I rebooted only to find that "BOOTMGR" was missing. I then inserted the Vista disk and fixed the error through command prompt. Because of that my time new time was:



I tried again and was able to bring my old time down 10 seconds:



I did some more tweaking and got it down to:

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello All,

Here is my new number with non-secure auto Logon.



I was just wondering if it really made a difference; now I am going to put it back like it was.


Later Ted

 

[Lid8nhx]

Hmmm... I know my system isn't as fast as most here... but my reboot time is horrible...
169 seconds?? Thoughts?

Ultimate x64 and XP Pro
Athlon 3700+ 2.2
3 gig OCZ memory
Dual SLI GForce 6800 GS
2 SATA 320 gig Barracuda drives running XP Pro and Vista Ultimate each on its own drive

 

[Dwarf]

Hi everyone,

Here is my reboot time. It is not the fastest, but when I compare it to the machine I use at work (over 10 minutes), it is like 'Speedy Gonzales'.
Dwarf

 

[brummyfan]

You are not alone Lid8nhx,have a look at mine and it will cheer you up!
3 and4 are after tweaking,it is good fun though.

 

[Lid8nhx]

Chuckles...It does cheer me up a little~~ss~
I just think I have crap running that perhaps doesn't need to be..
I am pretty sure when first installed it started way faster as I was suprised at how fast initially..~

 

[KROSEVEAR]

Wow this thread is great. I started at almost 90secs before using the info provided to do tweaking. The 4 core boot up made a huge difference.


Thanks for the great write ups.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Lid8nhx,

Have a look at your "System Configuration-Startup" file; see what you can trim at startup!

See mine here.

Let us know if it helps!

Hmmm... I know my system isn't as fast as most here... but my reboot time is horrible...
169 seconds?? Thoughts?

Addition: You may want to look at this also!

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/148532-how-use-snipping-tool-vista.html?ltr=H


Later Ted