Thread: Just for fun!

We've touched on the topic about the speed of Win-8 compared to XP and Win-7, but tonight I decided to do something about that.

I moved Windows 8 from an old 80 gig Sata II drive to a new Seagate SATA III (6GBM) drive on a SATA III controller card. Windows XP would not run on the SATA III controller cards(2) that I tried it on, but Win-8 runs on it even without any special drivers. So finally I've found a way to use my new SATA III drive to its fullest capability.

Now, to the speed test. The following Registry Script when run from my desktop, measures the time it takes the PC to do a shutdown and reboot. The reboot time on my XP drive was 108 seconds, while the reboot time on my Windows 8, SATA III drive is only 79 sec's.
Here's the code for the RebootTimer.vbs program.

Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
Dim Wsh, Time1, Time2, Result, PathFile, MsgResult, MsgA, AppName, KeyA, KeyB, TimeDiff
MsgA = "Please close all running applications and click on OK."
KeyA = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RestartTime\"
KeyB = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run\RestartTime"
AppName = "ReBoot-Time"
Set Wsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
PathFile = """" & WScript.ScriptFullName & """"
Result = wsh.RegRead(KeyA & "Times")
if Result = "" then
MsgResult = Msgbox (MsgA, vbOKCancel, AppName)
If MsgResult = vbcancel then WScript.Quit
Wsh.RegWrite KeyA & "Times", left(Time,8), "REG_SZ"
Wsh.RegWrite KeyB, PathFile, "REG_SZ"
Wsh.Run "cmd /c Shutdown -r -t 00", false, 0
else
Wsh.RegDelete KeyA & "Times"
Wsh.RegDelete KeyA
Wsh.RegDelete KeyB
TimeDiff = DateDiff("s",Result,left(Time,8))
MsgBox "Your computer reboots in " & TimeDiff & " seconds", VbInformation, AppName
end if
wscript.Quit


Copy and paste the code above into a new Notepad document and save with "RebootTimer.vbs".

Then run the script and post your results.

Have fun!

Attached the original. Full tutorial on how to use it is here.
With acknowledgment to Brink.
Restart Time - Windows 7 Forums

Actually "Brink", in that post gives credit to someone called sidney1st
Boot Up Time - Vista Forums

That's correct, Trouble. The short tutorial in both the 7 and Vista forums was Brinks, however. If you browse back there for the early release days of Vista, we had a lot of fun comparing restart times. ( with the usual practical jokers making remarkable claims!)
There was an interesting side issue. Sidney(French I believe) made a number of posts, mostly surrounding the script, over a very short period, and then vanished.

Here are my times:

Win 7 - 85 seconds

Win 8 DP - 68 seconds.

These times are somewhat dependent on me as the operator. I have a dual boot system and have to choose which OS to boot to (I use the Win 7 bootloader with Win 7chosen as the default OS), then have to enter my passwords for each OS. I also have set my boot timeout to 3 seconds instead of the default 30 seconds.

The win 7 figure is about the same for me. Windows 8 surprises me a little though, Ted. I get about 50 seconds on that, with quite a bit of my software loaded.

I can't begin, to tell you what I've gone through today, getting Win-8 reinstalled so it will boot up on my 6GBM controller card.
I couldn't find my Install DVD, so I had to download the ISO all over again and burn a new DVD. Now I'm going to burn about ten copies and stash them away all over the house.
I'm now far enough along in the process to run the Reboot timer and I'm now down to just 69 sec's. (from my previous 79 sec's)

All in all this PC is SCREAMING! Things that I'm used to waiting for..... I don't have to wait for now.

But the real high point of my day was receiving my Electric bill in the mail. Why is that a good thing? Because my bill is only $54.

So all in all, I'm feeling pretty good tonight.

Y'all have a great weekend, Y'hear? Happy Veterans Day!

The Doctor

It could be a difference in boot loader. Mine is a dual booted Sony Laptop with Win 7 bootloader as default and Win 7 listed as default OS. Loading the Win 7 bootloader may make a difference, although I'm just guessing. Plus there is some built in operator errors. My Win 8 DP password takes slightly longer to enter, who knows. I also have to tell the bootloader to load Win 8 whereas the Win 7 is automatically chosen if I do not make a selection.

Ted,
Sounds like you shot yourself in the foot. How's that feel?

Sorry about your $%&@ luck!

Happy Veterans Day!

The Doctor

In the first post. I guess that is a typo to save it as a .reg file?