Thread: Amazing Boot Times!!

From what I read in various tech forums where I write it does seem that most folks are experiencing huge differentials in this where 8 boots much faster. This what is what we were suppose to find due to a very different boot process in 8 that would give faster times. Lab testing, in fair A/B scenarios, support the theory, also.

Drew

It is begiinning to look like I am the only one with this issue!
Just to outline again, in case my post was not understood.
I have a dual boot , on two separate partitions, between windows 8 and windows 7. Windows 8 was installed last, so I have the new boot manager.
It takes a while on my old computer, to get to the boot manager, - many seconds longer than the Windows 7 boot manager perviously took.
Now. If I then selct Windows 8, it boots straight to the Windows 8 login/Metro. However, if I select Windows 7, it reboots my computer through the bios again and on to Windows 7, without problem. But of course, in a comparison, this reboot time adds a huge penalty to the Windows 7 boot time. Noone else seems to be experiencing this?

Well, can only speak for myself but, no, not me & I have a duel-boot; W7 in 1st. Boots into whichever I choose the same.

I do not get this, ", it reboots my computer through the bios again"

Drew

I try to evaluate any piece of software, even OS's as they will appear in the real world, like on a new PC right out of the store.

It's not fair to the OS or MS to install it as an afterthought or in a dual boot or virtual world.

In all fairness, to MS, and our readers, Win-8 should be installed as the only OS visible to the BIOS when the PC boots up.

That's totally easy to do, by just installing the test OS on it's own HD and making that the default boot drive.

Just a thought.

Doc

PS: I need to test it further, but I'm experiencing some difficulties with my browsers and even Windows Explorer with the new Windows 7 look software. Anyone else?

"PS: I need to test it further, but I'm experiencing some difficulties with my browsers and even Windows Explorer with the new Windows 7 look software. Anyone else? "

Maybe, suggesting it's just as well to use Win8, as is... just a thought...

Drew

Well, Drew, that's not a BAD thought, just one I'm not ready to accept yet.
I want to be able to test and evaluate all options.

We're still months away from the Retail Release of Windows 8 and when that time comes, I want to be ready for it.
I don't want to get caught with my 'pants down', so to speak, like I was with Windows XP.
XP had not been out for more than a few days, when I got my first service call on an XP machine. That day will live on, in infamy, and in my mind as one of my worse days as a computer tech. Since then, I vowed that I'd never get caught like that again.
Visduh did sneak up on me a little bit, I was pretty well prepared for Windows 7, but I want to be fully prepared for the release of Windows 8.

So, it's with that thought in mind, that I'm willing to try everything that comes along to make Win-8 more user friendly to my old customers and hopefully to a few new ones as well. I'll still be testing and tweaking right up to the day that Windows 8, is fully released.
So far, so good.

Yep, same here... that is 1 big advantage to being able to muck about w/ a new OS before public GA. Would be hell on us IT Pros & Consultants otherwise. Absolutely no dispute there! We must know an OS inside out (including available options) before our customers past, present & future ones, get a hold of them.

Drew

Hmm. I just tried switching the partitions. Still get the reboot. I have now installed several times on my own computers, and on friends and relations. They all get the same phenomena. There is nothing out of the ordinary, with my method of installation. I'll have to look deeper into this?????

Later. OK. Forget it! I've just been over to the Microsoft answers page with the query. It seems it is, in fact, the default. Why some users are not experiencing it is a mystery - but there we go!