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post your boot up time
2008-03-13, 6:29 PM #1
33 seconds. vista home premium. core 2 duo t5450. 2GB RAM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzVqVHhjA_M

that's me at the end pointing out i got a wifi connection and email from gmail already.
2008-03-13, 6:33 PM #2
Hmm
I guess i should find out. At last check it was 30s with Vista SP1, 4800+ 2 gigs.
2008-03-13, 7:40 PM #3
Beats me. My current uptime is like 37 days, I don't reboot often enough to care.
2008-03-13, 7:43 PM #4
Yeah, my current uptime is almost 6 days. I think it's been on since I came back to my apartment from break.
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2008-03-13, 7:54 PM #5
about 25 seconds. I'm running XP currently with 4 gigs of RAM, 500 gig HD and an AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-core.
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2008-03-13, 8:04 PM #6
I reboot so rarely that it could be 15 minutes before it started to seriously annoy me.
2008-03-13, 8:30 PM #7
I don't know how long a reboot takes me. All I know is it seems it takes longer for my programs to start up.

I wouldn't stop counting boot time when the login screen appears or the desktop appears. I'd count it totally booted up when all my startup apps were running and my system becomes responsive. Which takes a few minutes.

2008-03-13, 9:35 PM #8
Same here. Windows comes up nice and quick but my programs take a good while to come on. This sucks since I have a laptop.
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2008-03-13, 9:40 PM #9
My programs take awhile to start to kick it in gear. If I had to find a scapegoat for this, I would blame Norton AntiVirus that I'm required to have on this laptop (although its the Corporate Edition).
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2008-03-13, 10:54 PM #10
Originally posted by The Mega-ZZTer:
I wouldn't stop counting boot time when the login screen appears or the desktop appears. I'd count it totally booted up when all my startup apps were running and my system becomes responsive. Which takes a few minutes.


Same. For me that's about 8 minutes, which kind of sucks
2008-03-14, 1:15 AM #11
Originally posted by Crimson:
Same here. Windows comes up nice and quick but my programs take a good while to come on. This sucks since I have a laptop.

Have you tried using standby? I rarely reboot thanks to standby. No more annoying waiting for all programs to start up. :D
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2008-03-14, 1:23 AM #12
Most of the time it takes like 3-5 minutes, but sometimes it stops loading stuff in the middle and ends up finishing rattling in about 8.
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2008-03-14, 1:41 AM #13
I only re-boot for updates and after installing programs, which is rare.

On my Vista machine it's between 15 and 30 seconds (last I remember).
I have no idea with my laptop, but I know it takes longer to shut down than it does to boot up.
2008-03-14, 1:53 AM #14
It takes long enough for me to brush my teeth and get a glass of something from the fridge to drink (I guess that makes it a few mins or something). It's bloody annoying, though, because there's a clear pause in the process with nothing at all happening (no CPU use either). It's caused by the Wacom driver or something else. Without that pause it would take only half the time it now takes.
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2008-03-14, 2:05 AM #15
never actually timed it but it's easily less than a minute from off to fully booted

XP and an aging computer with one of those ancient single core 32bit CPUs
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2008-03-14, 5:11 AM #16
My Vista Ultimate machine has an uptime of about 34 days now, I don't remember how long it takes to boot.

My iBook g3 only takes about 45 seconds from off to fully functional.
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2008-03-14, 5:39 AM #17
30 seconds tops. I never think "Oh, this is taking ages" anyway. Which I do with some computers.
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2008-03-14, 7:13 AM #18
Originally posted by Echoman:
If I had to find a scapegoat for this, I would blame Norton AntiVirus that I'm required to have on this laptop (although its the Corporate Edition).

I doubt it, I've used Norton Corporate on several systems and it's very snappy. It also works unlike its consumer counterpart.
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2008-03-14, 7:50 AM #19
Originally posted by Emon:
I doubt it, I've used Norton Corporate on several systems and it's very snappy. It also works unlike its consumer counterpart.


Actually it too has begun to go downhill. It's like every week there's a new thread complaining about it on SA.
2008-03-14, 7:53 AM #20
My home machine has an uptime of 34 days. It occasionally hard-locks on me when I'm at the console because I'm using some unstable graphics drivers, but I primarily use it for irssi, rtorrent, and a fileserver via ssh. It's boot time is around a minute, I'd say. P4HT 1GB RAM 520 GB of storage.

I've never really timed my laptop, but I'll get back to you because I'm curious.
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2008-03-14, 8:01 AM #21
something like 20sec

macbook w/ leopard
gbk is 50 probably

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2008-03-14, 8:04 AM #22
Shutdown = 32s from the moment I tell it to shutdown to where power shuts off.
Bootup = 1m 17s from pressing power to being fully logged, desktop fully loaded.

Ubuntu 7.10 on 1.5GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM on battery. It may be shorter on AC. I could probably save some time by profiling my boot, as well.
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2008-03-14, 8:19 AM #23
I just watched the video. That's not boot-up, that's resuming. Mine does that in about 1 sec...
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2008-03-14, 8:33 AM #24
I don't reboot often, but a full system restart is about a minute.
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2008-03-14, 8:37 AM #25
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2008-03-14, 8:43 AM #26
Hahahaha NoESC good eye.

Hibernation != boot up.

I've never timed my macbook coming out of hibernation (mostly cause that only happens when the battery dies), but it comes out of sleep instantly, which is what I always use. I literally don't turn the laptop off for weeks at a time.

I did just time my bootup, and it's 45 seconds from button press to full desktop + clock loaded (clock loads last). Another 20 seconds immediately after and Firefox is up with all 10 of my previous tabs open and loaded.

Maybe not the fastest but plenty fast enough.
2008-03-14, 8:59 AM #27
The first time I booted my rig (pre-driver install) I was amazed, it took less than 15 seconds from power on to desktop. Now it takes ~30ish or less, don't remember.

Core 2 Duo, E6750.
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2008-03-14, 11:00 AM #28
actually it always says resuming windows after i shut down. i don' know why.
and i shut down by clicking start and the off button.
2008-03-14, 11:32 AM #29
That means the action for the power button is set to hibernate.
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2008-03-14, 12:03 PM #30
ooo... thanks. i'm learning about vista.
2008-03-14, 12:20 PM #31
Click start, then click the > next to the power button, and click Shut Down.

Gonna record a video of how long that boot up takes? :p
2008-03-14, 12:25 PM #32
lol. i just might. i was testing out my new webcam and youtube and how the quality maintains. you guys were the victims of that.
2008-03-14, 2:16 PM #33
Originally posted by Emon:
That means the action for the power button is set to hibernate.


I prefer to use hibernate.. especially on my laptop
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2008-03-14, 9:18 PM #34
What's the "healthiest" for your computer?

Shutting down? Hibernating? Standby? I mean, if you use for comp for like 4 hours a day straight, and leave it alone otherwise.
2008-03-15, 6:58 AM #35
12 sec shutdown
40 sec from pushing the pwr button to the logon screen
9 sec from logon to desktop fully loaded and ready to go

WinXP, Pentium 4 3.2GHz, 1 G Ram


I leave my computer on all day and turn it off every night. Mine's not hibernating or anything. I just have a screen saver come on and it turns off the monitor after 20 mins.
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2008-03-15, 8:14 AM #36
Originally posted by Z@NARDI:
I prefer to use hibernate.. especially on my laptop

Hibernate is a god-send on laptops. I go months without actually shutting down. The only thing that forces me is certain updates, or if it freezes when it tries to hibernate.
2008-03-15, 8:49 AM #37
Mine boots fast enough - the programs just take a while. My current uptime is almost 13 days (had to reboot for an update, IIRC), so I don't really care..
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2008-03-15, 9:45 AM #38
I got to school about 6 days ago, so that was the last time I had to boot up. Now that I'm not in Philly anymore I don't have to worry about the ****ing wireless router blue screening my comp.
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2008-03-15, 10:21 AM #39
Originally posted by Darth Evad:
33 seconds. vista home premium. core 2 duo t5450. 2GB RAM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzVqVHhjA_M

that's me at the end pointing out i got a wifi connection and email from gmail already.


This is quite possibly the least interesting video on youtube ever, second only to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1VEY7ndKCs
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2008-03-16, 10:47 AM #40
BUT MY PC IS ON ALREADY HAHA OWNED

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