Thread: Amazing Boot Times!!

Mike, certainly, there are factors that will affect boot times. In my case, my Win7 & 8 are (now) fairly similar in content... but, no matter what...Win8 can't help but, be faster to boot than, prior OSs.

Drew

Drew it would be nice to compare on a fresh install of W7 without all of the Windows updates.
Joe

True, Joe. Would be quite an accomplishment for me to set that up but, I'm fairly certain one can find testing that's been done under those types of scenarios.

Drew

I have to agree here as well. Typically on Windows 7, it takes about 2 minutes to get to the login screen whereas in Windows 8, it takes somewheres around 30-45 seconds.

It isn't mentioned, so I have to ask!
I have a dual partition set up with Windows 7 and Windows 8. Windows 8, of course, sets up the new boot manager. I find that, excluding the delay time, which I have reduced to 3 seconds, the boot manager does boot straight into Windows 8. However, if you set Windows 7 as the default, or merely select it from the boot manager, in my case it reboots the computer first, before , then, going into windows 7. Naturally this adds an enormous time to the boot up of windows 7.
I found by re installing the Windows 7 boot manager, both boot up times were pretty much the same. This is with the same software installed.

I'm not sure I get where there is a question, here. What is it your asking??

If, this has anything to do w/ it...

I've had duel-boots, a triple for a while, too, but, anyway, since the XP Vista overlap during & after I was beta-testing Vista. Once there are 2 machines in place & 2 show on the choice screen & choose 1 & go & they are listed A & B. Whichever goes from Highlight to Enter doesn't matter... nothing should reboot or go through some cycling or … should just directly start up whichever one (the same).

And, I can tell you that if, you change the boot priority, making B boot '1st', if you don't hit anything before so many seconds

Then, @ the choice screen, they will, still, be listed A (on top) & B but, now B will be the one starting

I dunno if I'm saying anything you don't already know AND if it even points @ the query.

And, if Win 7 was in the box 1st, it has the Boot. If, you pulled the plug on 7, 8 would no longer boot. The Boot is where the 1st OS installed is, it's w/ the 1st OS put in the machine.

If you change the Boot priority so 7 started 1st... @ the choice screen 8 would still be listed as it was, on top & 7 underneath, 2nd so to speak BUT... because you are seeing it on top you think it's using 8's Boot, it's not. Now 7 would go to start 1st but, 8 would ,still be listed 1st but, the highlight would now be @ 7, positioning doesn't change.

If it, Win8, was installed on a machine 1st or by itself then it hold the Boot. If you duel-booted & 8 was 1st in the box then it would have the Boot not, 7; cus 8 got there 1st, in that scenario.

Here... I installed Win7 x86 then, Win7 x64, afterwards. When I wanted to wipe out the x86, had to move the Boot from it to the x64.
Until then, you can't boot B w/out A.

God, I trust this is making sense. Or it's clear as mud. We're not sure, @ this point...tell me later

Cheers,
Drew

Sorry, I just cannot read your post, but I thought what I was saying was pretty clear.I am not sure if your post refers to the same thing. The question probably is, "Is everyone experiencing this, as it is not mentioned . With the situation like this (assuming it is the same for all!) It is unfair to rate Windows 7 boot time against Windows 8.

Originally Posted by davehc

It is unfair to rate Windows 7 boot time against Windows 8.

Agreed. Unless you can truly compare Apples to Apples, with a completely clean install of both operating systems on identical hardware any comparisons would likely be skewed. Just the size of the registry alone on a Windows 7 system that had been in place for some time, compared to a fresh install of Windows 8, would likely deprecate the results, especially if you're talking milliseconds here.