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Windows 7 does not boot faster

Vista is actually quicker
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Thursday, 8 October 2009, 10:41



SYSTEMS EXPERTS with stop watches have poured cold water on Microsoft's claims that its Windows 7 operating system boots up faster than Vista.
The Vole has been marketing Windows 7 on the claim that it can boot up quicker than Vista.
However according to Link Removed, which flogs PC tune-up software called System Mechanic, Windows 7 takes a minute and 34 seconds to become usable, whereas Vista takes only a minute and 6 seconds.
This tallies with our experience with Windows 7 too. It can take a long time for network cards to activate and since you can't get onto the net straight away you still end up going and making a cup of coffee while the machine boots up.
Iolo said that most measurements were based on the time it took the desktop to appear. In Windows 7 this is much faster and can be about 40 seconds. However Windows 7 is not actually completely usable at that point.
It decided to trip its stop watches on the time it takes Windows 7 to become fully usable "with CPU cycles no longer significantly high and a true idle state achieved".
Windows still gets slower and slower as time goes on, apparently. Iolo found that a three-month-old machine can take up to a minute longer to boot, or 2 minutes and 34 seconds.
Windows 7 did outperform Vista at the three-month and six-month marks. But it "trailed the older version significantly" in its earlier boot-up tests.
Iolo plans to release more details on its findings and methodology next week. µ

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It boots fast enough for me..:)
 


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Super Sarge said:
My problem is a re-boot or shut down, When I restart it may stay at the log off screen saying windows shutting down for more than 2 minutes, it does not do this everytime but often enough to drive you crazy, :confused: this is only on w-7 rc1 64 bit, it does not do this on my Vista 32 bit
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I noticed any time, I rebooted, it did of your explanation "2 min" come to find out I had a program that would make w7 stick for about that amount of time, it was peerguardian, if I shutdown PG before restart, it shuts down fast as heck.

Could it be one of your programs before you shutdown making it hang for abit longer? stardock etc.
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mine boots up in 16secs after the bios with the internat fully useable straight away when getting on the desktop:confused:
 


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hiawathado said:
only reason why i think i ll use win7 is its compatibility with XP software.. one or 2 minute difference in starting up will be the last reason for my choice ..:D
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Check Administrative logs under Event Viewer \custom it's usually specific about what's hanging up and timing out.
 


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boot up w7

windows 7 is faster overall but it is decieving,making the boot screen animate tricks us into thinking its faster through visuals,dont know about yours but the sounds and appearence of the logon seem out of sync??,boot up is ok,not as fast as xp but better than vista,on my machine once the desktop is on, the harddrive stops and is done,no messing,straight into any program i want
 


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As I said before my problem is not boot up time it is shutdown/reboot time it takes 147.493 seconds :( I find that very slow
Boot up time is 78.898 seconds.
I would like to know why the slow shut down/restart time?:confused:

Also At start up I get this
Host Process for Windows Services (svchost.exe) took 4075 ms longer to start up than usual. [Total: 6349 ms - Usual: 2274 ms]
 


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Super Sarge said:
As I said before my problem is not boot up time it is shutdown/reboot time it takes 147.493 seconds :( I find that very slow
Boot up time is 78.898 seconds.
I would like to know why the slow shut down/restart time?:confused:

Also At start up I get this
Host Process for Windows Services (svchost.exe) took 4075 ms longer to start up than usual. [Total: 6349 ms - Usual: 2274 ms]
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Checkout this page supersarge it might be a help?:

Very slow shutdown - Windows 7 Forums

Also try running ccleaner and a malware/virus scan..
 


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Mine boots much faster then with Vista.It only takes half the time to access the internet after fully loading.
I love it!
 


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How fast does your system Boot?

Ok..bit of fun time.. Using this app found here: BootRacer - Test your Windows boot speed

I just wondered what the average boot time is for those using either 32bit or 64bit? So please state which one your using when posting your result.
My result is in the screenie below..
Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit
Specs are in my sig..
 


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Thanks kemical, this was "fun".

Below is the results of my testing of Win 7 RC versus XP-SP3 Pro.
Both OS's installed on same machine in multi boot setup so machine specs. are the same for both.

System Specs
Computer: Acer Aspire 5672 WLMi notebook
Processor: Intel 2.0 GHz Core2Duo (codename merom)
Memory: 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz operating in Synchronous Dual Channel Mode
Hard Drive: 320 GB Seagate Momentus 7200.3

Autologon enabled for both OS's.

Startup programs as reported by Sysinternals "autoruns" app. same for both OS's.

Win 7 installed on 22.53 GB NTFS partition at physical end of 320 GB/7200 RPM SATA drive

Win 7 RC BootRace results.

Logon time: average of 5 boot cycles - 39 seconds

Desktop time: average of 5 boot cycles - 57 seconds

XP-SP3 Pro installed on 22.53 GB NTFS partition at physical beginning of 320 GB/7200 RPM SATA drive.

XP-SP3 Pro BootRace results.

Logon time: average of 5 boot cycles - 42 seconds

Desktop time: average of 5 boot cycles - 88 seconds

Sorry don't have 64 bit Win 7 RC installed so I can't compare Win 7 RC 32 bit versus 64 bit.

Results do show Win 7 for me is somewhat quicker to boot than XP.


 


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You got some quick booting systems there Frank...:cool:
 


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Retail version here, are you still using the beta?
 


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kemical said:
Ok..bit of fun time.. Using this app found here: BootRacer - Test your Windows boot speed

I just wondered what the average boot time is for those using either 32bit or 64bit? So please state which one your using when posting your result.
My result is in the screenie below..
Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit
Specs are in my sig..
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Great idea .. I got it installed and I'll post the results provided they aren't too embarassing.
 


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Cool!... More results mean a better data base...:D
 


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kemical said:
Cool!... More results mean a better data base...:D
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27 seconds... but this isn't really accurate because looking at a clock when you press your power button and then checking it again when the hourglass disapperars is actually over 60 seconds.

This program reported 27 seconds
 


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Still...pretty good though....:cool:

Or should i say pretty awesome..27 seconds....phew thats fast!
 


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