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Hello everyone. This is Mike from Windows8Forums.com. We some very good news for Windows 8 enthusiasts, as new benchmarks have been released from Microsoft Corporation. These benchmarks indicate that Windows 8 boots significantly faster than Windows 7 in every possible realm. We have thirty (30) computers that have been tested, and while we don't know the make-up or consistency of these systems, we know that both solid state hard drives and both 7200RPM conventional hard drives were likely used. The graph shows that the longest boot time for Windows 7 can be up to seventy (70) seconds on these experimental systems. Meanwhile, the longest boot time for Windows 8 seems to be around fifteen (15) seconds. To make that matter more articulate, Microsoft released a promotional video to showing the power of this boot-time capacity.




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"Hi, my name is Emily Wilson and I am a Program Manager in the Kernel Platform Group, and today I am going to show you how fast Windows 8 starts up. So here we have a laptop and the battery is removed so we know we are at zero power. We're going to put the battery back in, and now we're going to see how fast Windows 8 starts up. So here we go, and we're posting, and there we go, that's all there is to it. We look forward to you getting to try this out yourself."

Are you kidding me? That was friggin' unbelievable. Let's not take a look at that again, and let's just be amazed by it. I believe that computer booted in ten seconds, and I'm amazed by it. That was Hewlett Packard laptop: still trying to find the model and make of that system, to boot Windows 8 within a matter of seconds. I am here at shopping.hp.com and I've gone to the high-end area of their computer sales: they do have a Labor Day sale on their computer systems. I am checking to see if it's the Pavilion DV6Z. It is very possible, since this system uses a AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M Accelerated Processor (2.3GHz/1.4GHz, 4MB L2 Cache) with a good AMD Radeon(TM) Discrete-Class Graphics [HDMI, VGA]... it could be the DV6T, but she was definitely using a higher-end laptop. Either way, you're definitely not going to get this boot time on any HP laptop that I've ever seen. I just can't believe it to be honest with you. And when I look at the type of laptop she was using, the only one that I can see she was using was from their high performance laptop area. And it's got to be one of these systems. It could have been the DV7T. But I can only imagine they've had to use the best possible high end system. This could have even been a dual core i5 with a high cache. It looks to be that they could even have been using a traditional 7200 RPM hard drive since most of these systems seem to come with one. However, a second generation i7 machine, the DV7T with the i7, a 6MB L3 cache, 2.0Ghz clock speed, and a 1GB GDDR Radeon HD 6490 would not be out of the question with a system like that to see a system like that boot so quickly. But it definitely looked like a HP Pavilion laptop. And that is something that is truly amazing, folks. So look forward to more information at Windows8Forums.com. We will continue to report on this stuff whenever we get the chance. This is awesome and unprecedented to see Microsoft releasing benchmarks for their flagship Windows 8 operating system, which will be out by the end of the year, 2012.

Microsoft has released benchmarks and video testimony that shows the power of their new Windows 8 operating system. In boot and start-up benchmark scores, Windows 8 appears to obliterate Microsoft Windows 7. If that wasn't enough, Emily Wilson, Program Manager at the Windows 8 Kernel Platform Group demonstrates this superior boot time using an unknown HP laptop. This video reviews and documents an extraordinary newsworthy event after Microsoft published their "Building Windows 8: 'Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8'" press release and promotion.​

 


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Having read all that, I figured it's a good time to try it out myself. I've got an older PC, with 1GB of RAM, and it has Win-7 and Win-8 installed.

I will time how long it takes to turn the computer on, and get to my desktop. ....

Win 8
  • From turning on the power to getting to the screen asking me which version of Windows I want to load, 34 seconds.
  • To get from there to the "pretty background photo with a large clock at bottom-left", 6 seconds
  • To get from there to the login screen, 1/4 second, or less...
  • To log on after typing in my password.... 6 seconds
  • To get to the desktop.... 1/4 second, or less

Total time from power on to desktop: 46 seconds.



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Whether you should turn off your computer at night is a complicated question, since some computers can benefit from being turned off at night, while others should be left on. Many people choose to turn their computers off to save power, increase security, and reduce wear on the parts. Others choose to leave it on for overnight-running processes, data sharing, and network or security updates. Ultimately, whether or not you turn off your computer at night is an individual decision, and you'll have to balance the pros and cons. If you have an unnetworked home PC, you may find that turning it off and unplugging it provides the most benefits.
 


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A machine is not less secure if left on or sleeping. Turning them off thinking it saves power... what they use while sleeping is too little to measure and leaving a piece of electronics on, especially @ idle, uses less power than turning it off & on, again. If a machine is not going to be used for more than a day or 2 than, maybe, shut it down.

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Cool, glad you like it.

I may have a few other tricks (tips) up my sleeve you might enjoy...

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Drew
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When I first got my new laptop in February I left it on day and night as I'd done my previous laptop. My electric bill went up $20. I now shut it down at night and my bill went back down.
 


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Dawter,

I am sorry but, I am going to suggest that a sleeping laptop cannot make a $20 monthly impact on an electrical bill. I will not draw that much current, not even close to that.

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Drew
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Still you are advocating people accepting "parasitic loads" as something insignificant. What you fail to understand is that parasitic loads may not add that much to an individual's electricity bill but on a nationwide level it does matter.
 


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this is quite informative but expected one though as i have an idea working over the same Window version that it has enhanced features than it predecessor..
 


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Be Lee said:
what about when we restart that OS? is it faster than windows 7?
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I've been looking pretty close at this over time, and the honest answer is no. However, with the UEFI BIOS it does boot faster. You would need Windows 7 on the same box for a true compare. Windows 8, when it is shutoff, actually saves part of what you are running to disk. Almost like a hibernate where the OS is saved to a file and then the machine turned off. However, in this case it's only the kernal portion. So when you computer is started in Windows 8 it is very fast, and honestly it's a great design.

Restart actually does a complete boot where everything in memory is erased and then the computer restarted. Even so, the idea of the old cold boot is pretty much gone in Windows 8. In order to get there you basically have to shutdown the computer (not restart), unplug it and wait a few minutes and plug it back in. At that point you get the BIOS(Boot) screen and the OS boots from scratch. Again, may seem like more drama, but unless your job is to cold boot into the BIOS all day long, this is actually a good design.
 


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if the news is of worth to trust then this is a moment of joy for the Microsoft as the firm is juggling much withe the mixed responses its latest version it getting from users
 


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Well after a Windows 8 update, my startup time went from a few seconds to a now 2.45 hours, but at least that's down from the 4.1 hours it was taking!
 


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VikingBerserker said:
Well after a Windows 8 update, my startup time went from a few seconds to a now 2.45 hours, but at least that's down from the 4.1 hours it was taking!
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If this is true it would mean something is seriously wrong with your hardware. Can you give system specifications?
 


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