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Windows 8 Booting and Starting Faster than Windows 7 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.
"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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Yesterday in the Building Windows 8 Blog, Steven Sinofsky expressed concerns that Windows 8 may boot too fast.
In the article he discusses why that could potentially be a bad thing (no time to evoke BIOS utility, no time to evoke safe mode, etc.,).
And some of the things they are building into the operating system to work around that pesky problem.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2...er-before.aspx
Worth a look.
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I'd like to get that laptop too, I timed it from when she hit the power button to Start Screen, 7 seconds.
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There are articles appearing all over the place regarding issues due boot spd. Just the brain, eyes & fingers don't have enough time to do anything... might want to hit something (else) rather than going through to regular boot.
I will say, I've seen, 1st-hand, how this can be 'challenging' / how challenging this may/does make opting for things... @ the OS boot choice screen it's set to default to Win8 BUT, this time, I want 7... damn, I better have my finger over the key & be blazing fast while, the wee moment is there! Grrr, when I miss it.
Cheers,
Drew
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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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I started to try the same thing for Win7, but it's not possible. When I boot the computer to the point where I select which operating system to use, it's already showing some of the Win8 screens, and after selecting Win7 it re-boots, this time eventually getting into Win7. This takes much longer than what it used to take before installing Win8 one one of the partitions.
I know the boot-up time was more with Win-7, but I had a lot of things loading. With Win-8 it's a pretty empty system, and starts up quite nicely. For an older computer, even with only 1 GB, Win-8 makes it a lot more enjoyable to use. The only time it bogged down was when I tried to use the Media Center to watch a video from Hulu TV.
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Another article worth reading in this respect is a Toms Hardware piece on the new UEFI bios..
Say Goodbye To Your BIOS: Hello, UEFI! : On the Verge Of UEFI
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Originally Posted by Mike
Do I need new glasses again - it's true that it shows the longest boot time for Windows 7 at 70 seconds, but when I look at the data for Windows 8, the SHORTEST boot time (not longest) is 15 seconds.
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This is how my Windows8 CP booted in Virtual Box. The video is real time. Start Win8 in vBox1.wmv - YouTube. But that would not be a reason for me to buy it.
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When an OS is touted for its boot speed then I know it is not worth buying. How many times a day does one need to boot his PC? What difference will a minute or two make? Will you miss the train? Do you proponents of Win 8 seriously think that the strong selling point of any OS is its boot speed?
I wager that most people who own PCs will shy away from this OS simply because of its unfriendly UI. I do however think that it is very well suited for Tablets and smart phones!
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Some testing data. Perhaps it proves or disproves some claims. I'll let you be the judge.
Speed Tests: Windows 8 Vs. Windows 7 | PCMag.com
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