Normal for win8 to boot up faster than reboot?

stev1212 · 14 Nov 2012 at 21:07

It takes about 20 seconds from pressing the power button to getting into the os from a cold boot.

But if i reboot from the time i get the bios screen it's about 40 seconds?

Whats with the difference?!

stev1212 · 14 Nov 2012 at 21:09

Just to make it clear. On the reboot im timing it from when windows restarts the machine and i get the BIOS.

areksnumbr1sxylady · 15 Nov 2012 at 10:35

if its not even normal, do 20 seconds mean a lot to you??

feck199 · 15 Nov 2012 at 11:09

Well the first difference is one is from a cold boot.

The other involves booting up first and then pressing or selecting the restart button.

Hope this helps!

stev1212 · 15 Nov 2012 at 21:51

Just seems odd to me how a cold boot is getting me into windows faster than a reboot does. Surely they should be EXACTLY the same?

Rooster212 · 15 Nov 2012 at 22:04

The same thing happens to me, I believe it is something to do with the way that Windows 8 boots. There is some sort of caching involved to speed up boot times, and maybe reboots don't have the same affect!

MonsterMoshi · 15 Nov 2012 at 22:12

Rooster212 said:
The same thing happens to me, I believe it is something to do with the way that Windows 8 boots. There is some sort of caching involved to speed up boot times, and maybe reboots don't have the same affect!

This ^
I read somewhere (can't remember where) that the shut down in windows 8 stores a lot of data in a cache so it can boot much faster however a reboot is like a reboot in windows 7 where it resets various things.