Thread: Amazing Boot Times!!

Speaking of amazing boot times...

Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8 - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

As time passes few more things loaded, couple things running @ start-up yet...

12/3

Start up (not restart) - 39.5 secs.

Never, ever, see or had times like this w/ prior OSs.

Drew

I think in all honesty you would need some software to properly measure boot speed. It may appear visually booted up but still be loading things.
Joe

Joe, time is from Event Viewer. Wouldn't that be ok as a source?

Point is in regard to seeing, as more gets accumulated in/on this OS, boot times continue to stay very low. Just as low as when bare-bones OS was 1st installed.

Drew

Drew that's good enough but just starting and using a watch and guessing when it's done can leave a lot of room for error. I've seen plenty of posts where people are timing with a watch. It would be interesting to see what the boot speed was with Defender and Windows firewall disabled and third party AV and firewall installed. I would think that having Defender and Windows firewall included as part of the system might shave some time.
Joe

Understood, Joe. & I agree if watches are being used... I'm not even sure most of those folks would know when to start & stop. Not sure I care to shut off security, even, briefly; but, even so, something around 40 is quite alright by me

I just recall fast boot being suggested @ Build back in September & looks like a truism & reality. That's all I've really been on about w/ this. Don't boot often & a couple milliseconds isn't anything. @ the end of the day, the new boot system is, indeed, quick(er)

Drew

I guess I'm really not concerned how much faster it is than Win 7. What concerns me, is does it work and do what I need it to do, or if not how easy is the work around? Is it stable? I am still a little concerned with freeze ups. Last evening I got called away for a while and left the laptop up. When I got back, the screen was off (was supposed to be) PC was asleep (I assume) but I could not wake it. I had to power it with the power switch. Fortunately both Win 7 and Win 8CP appear fine. I changed my power settings to sleep and shut screen down at same time if same happens again and it seemed to power on fine today. I'll keep an eye on it.

So like I say power up and power down times aren't as important to me as useability when it is up.

Yes, Ted, ditto. It boots quickly & quicker than other OSs, end of story... a few milliseconds + or - no, not super-important. And performance, once & when up & running, you're right, that is important.

I'm concerned/curious about the "freeze-ups" you mention. My own 8, so far, has been w/out any 'hiccups' @ all.