Windows Boot Timer Benchmarks

[DIABLO]

11.668 secs with a x25-m 160GB

 

[dave_beast]

Kingston 30GB SSDNOW (Win 7 64)
WD Raptor 74GB (programs)
9550 @ 3.2ghz
ASROCK P45DE
4GB Crucial Ballistix

 

[weescott]

Some tips for speeding up boot times that I have picked up. These can be tailored for preference.

Run msconfig from cmd/run

From the Boot tab select No GUI boot and the Timeout to 3 seconds. In the Advanced button you can select multiple CPUs/cores to speed things up more.

From the services tab click the 'Hide all microsoft Services' button then click disable all. You can also disable some windows services that you don't need. eg. Print spooler if you don't have a printer and Disk Defragger if you have an SSD. Plus a few more...

From the startup tab select what programs you actually want on startup.

Disable Windows Aero/use Win classic view. A clean desktop with no wallpaper also helps.

Doing just a few of these improved my boot times by some 30 seconds.

 

[GJ02]

12.4gig free

 

[oli356]

Ugh, i ran it and clicked 'do it later' so i restarted pc and the result in the end was 85seconds lol. With my Western Digital WD1001FALS 1TB 109GB partition for Windows 7

 

[dave_beast]

I selected no GUI boot and changed it to 4 cores, got this

 

[RJC]

My laptop, Win 7, 2gb ram, T7250 cpu:

 

[413x]

really slow

88 processes after startup

Win 7 64

78 seconds

300GB WD velociraptor


least i got the velociraptor lol

 

[Swiftlegend]

3x OCZ vertex's RAID 0 = 12.620 seconds (and i think my computer has malicious software lol)

 

[danewesley]

250gb spinpoint F1

56Gb free

 

[EniGmA1981]

500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA-II 7200rpm

Split into two partitions, boot partition @ 120GB with 66.5GB free
(dunno if that makes a difference lol)

 

[dave_beast]

New record for me, running a Kingston 30gb SSDNow V Series in AHCI mode

 

[EniGmA1981]

13 seconds!? damn dude that's impressive

I've SO gotta get me one of these SSD's lol the HDD seems to be the serious weak link in my chain

Guys, out of interest, what score do your SSD's get in the windows experience index? My Seagate scores 5.9 - with some of these boot speeds I can see the SSD's doubling that!

 

[SeraphX]

mines at 39.140 seconds,
HD is a almost clapped out western digital 250Gb 7200rpm something
rest of specs in siggy

 

[dave_beast]

13 seconds!? damn dude that's impressive

I've SO gotta get me one of these SSD's lol the HDD seems to be the serious weak link in my chain

Guys, out of interest, what score do your SSD's get in the windows experience index? My Seagate scores 5.9 - with some of these boot speeds I can see the SSD's doubling that!

Mine get's 7.2 matey, but SandForce drives range between 7.4-7.9 (the max) now.

Get one of these, should get to 7.7 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-047-OC&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=

 

[Nelson Santos]

Cant really justify the price of one atm.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Clever marketing rjkoneill

I may have just been convinced to buy an SSD.. No wait.. the kids need clothes!!

 

[EniGmA1981]

Cant really justify the price of one atm.

I agree to be honest... I mean yeah, they're amazingly fast but for the price they're stupidly small... I saw someone on here with a 250GB one so I looked on ocuk and it's over £500!!! Insane money

I'll definately get one when the prices plummet though

*scanning the bay of e...* lol

 

[Invertigo]

Trying to get this to work, but nothing comes up after a reboot.

Want to compare my current mechanical disk to my shiny new SSD arriving tomorrow!

 

[Thekwango]

Trying to get this to work, but nothing comes up after a reboot.

Want to compare my current mechanical disk to my shiny new SSD arriving tomorrow!

run it in xp compatability mode and as administrator