How long does it take your computer to go from being turned off to being logged in to Runescape? And are you happy with the amount of time it takes, or do you think it is too slow?

My laptop took 3 minutes and 35 seconds when I timed it to turn on, log into my user account, connect to the Wifi, open up Google Chrome and log into Runescape (using the Windows 7 RC as my OS). I'm pretty happy with that time; it doesn't seem too slow to me. I normally have my laptop on standby anyway.

What about your computer?

My laptop with a pentium dual core at 2ghz takes around 45 seconds to boot and open up firefox to the forums and facebook. Shuts down in about 20 seconds.

This is on Vista, I haven't timed 7 but it's around the same thing. I'm pretty happy about that time. I've pretty much turned off everything on startup and services I don't need.

How'd you get Vista to boot up that fast? That's insanely fast compared to my Vista pc with and AMD Phenom quad core processor at 2.20GHz. I think it takes at least 3-4 minutes here.

Start > run > msconfig > startup > I turned everything off except synaptics, peerguardian, rocketdock, groove monitor, and HD audio control panel. On services I only have AVG and Online Armor (firewall), along with the rest of microsoft ones that I didn't want to mess with.

3-4 minutes damn man how many programs do you have?

My machine believe it or not boots faster into Vista then XP

Athlon X2 5000+
4GB of RAM
Fully boots in 30 - 40 seconds.

I don't boot up the computer. Sleep FTW .
Plus, it's not my computer.
But if I had to boot it, probably 2-3 minutes.

I forgot to add that this is having multiple user accounts. Usually 5-10 seconds is shaved off with only one, but it seems the rest of the family wants to use this computer, too.

I must say, my Vista Home Premium sucks and takes about three to four minutes to boot and get online. Three years ago, it probably was two. Sad really, my Windows 95 used to boot up in 45 seconds and get to a game in ten.
My school computers boot and get online in less than a minute.

It's still insanely fast though...My laptop has a faster processor and the only programs that load on startup are Spybot's TeaTimer, AVG, Synaptic, and Privoxy, and it's several minutes slower You must have done a very good job at disabling services

I'll go and clock it to get it exact. Hold on.

Took about 45 seconds to get to my desktop and around 1 minute total to open up firefox.

30 seconds to get to desktop 35 seconds to firefox
Windows XP ftw!
AMD turion 60 x2 2.2ghz
2gb ram
240gb 5200rpm

Use to have windows vista and it boot up in 50sec
had everything off except the necessary software.

I retimed it - took 55 secs to get to the login screen this time, and 2 mins 40 seconds to boot up fully and load Runescape. Strange that there was such a big difference between the 1st and 2nd attempt - I haven't changed anything

Yours still seems very fast though

Looking at the times, they seem to be very varied. Sometimes Vista boot times are slower than XP on a machine with the same specs, but sometimes they are faster. Very weird

Depends. With Vista it must be around 2 minutes. With DSL on the other hand... the blink of an eye?

My laptop: 12-15 minutes from boot to Firefox being open.
My other laptop: Around three minutes to boot, but it can't get an internet connection so N/A.
This computer: 2-3 minutes from boot to Firefox being open.
Other computer: 20-30 minutes from boot to Firefox being open.

Obviously, I like this computer best . This one is Vista, all the others are XP.

I've been trying to speed up my main laptop and the other computer, but my efforts haven't done anything yet. I plan to work more on that during my summer break. Hopefully I'll be able to find out what exactly is making them so slow and fix it.

Wow Xaria you sure have alot of patience.

My computer boots up in less than 1.5 mins, that's booting up, entering pass, logging in, and playing runescape.

Windows Vista =(.

Edit:Also, every single service and startup option in msconfig is activated, but now I've noticed that, disabling a few =).

My computer has two boot times:
30 seconds for OS X
34 seconds for Win7

4-6 minutes on Windows XP.

Slow computer ftl.

wow just wow. how old is that thing?

No time, 'cause it's coming out of hibernation or about 5-10 seconds coming out of sleep mode. I reboot it every few days, which takes about 40 seconds - Win7 Ultimate on netbook, what can I say?

50-60 seconds on Vista, loaded with a ton of programs.

Although I haven't really timed it; just feels like that long to me.

My laptop shuts down in 15 seconds, and I made it to the forums in 45 seconds since the time I pressed my power button.

boot time: 12 seconds, 15 seconds when including password typing (imac 2.93 dual core, 4gb ram)

shutting down without any programs still open is about 6 seconds

Takes about 45 secs to start up, 1 sec to shut down.

Are you holding down the power button or what?

That's insane for a shutdown...

12-16 minutes on my olderish Acer laptop but its been through alot.
Scariest thing is how long it takes me to shut it down (Properly) One time it took 42 minutes

My current computer that i use for university and stuff takes about 10 seconds to boot and 20 to shut down.

1sec? Thats impossible.


Man, how are you guys getting a 10 second boot? What operating system are you using?

I'm really doubting it taking 10 seconds to boot, tbh.

Ubuntu on a high-end computer is really fast, but I'm not sure if it's that fast. OSX is also pretty quick, but again I'm not sure if it's *that* fast.

Mine takes like, idk like 3 minutes or something

OS X isn't that fast. for me it took around 35 seconds

OS X on my new comp is 12 seconds for booting
seriously
it is that fast also because it doesn't have to load a virus scan etc

Actually no, I'm shutting it down properly.

I click shutdown, a second later it's turned off.

That's one thing I love about my computer.

Haven't ever timed anything, but Windows 7 loads so much faster than Vista.

My computer never had a virus scan until a couple of days ago. and OS X always took around 35 seconds.


What kind of computer do you have? Monke's right. that's insane

If boot time and speed is what you're after, then get either DSL, Puppy Linux or Feather Linux. I have absolutely no idea which one to get at the minute, they're all similar but which one's the best?

iMac 2.00GHz running Leopard.

i'm speechless...

You sure you're not clicking some kind of sleep button, where everything just fades to black and seems like it's been turned off?

even on my mac book it takes roughly 4 seconds

Hmm...maybe because Macs use UNIX? I also found that Ubuntu shutsdown very fast (around 5-10 seconds).

Ubuntu was pretty slow for me. 2.2 ghz amd 64 x2
I highly doubt that it takes 1 sec to shut down.

With that processor I can load Ubuntu in 20-25 seconds and shut it down in like 10.

I'm quite positive that I'm not

Menu -> Shutdown -> Hit enter -> Bam.

from what i can see our computer's have pretty much the same specs except that yours is an iMac and mines a MacBook. How's that work?

Still completely doubting you. 1 second shutdown times are impossible and extremely unrealistic. You sure it's a real shutdown and not the monitor/power supply issues?

And it's not the time it takes to get from the desktop to the shutdown screen if that's what you were implying...

Hmm now I am curious... I'll shut it down right as this posts.... then reboot and edit my post so my post and edit times are shown to give a more accurate count


hmmm when I logged back in to sals it sais my last post was "A minute ago " I wonder if the times will be different?
Judging by my time it took roughly 55-60 seconds for a reboot with

XP Pro svc.3 3.8 ghz pentium dualcore 4 gb ddr2ram