Posted by xboxman
OK going on from the upgrading to Vista and yes i did try it again and wished i had not.
Now after restoring my pc back to XP i am thinking it is taking a long time to boot up.
I timed it and its taking 2 mins 6 secs i know it dont seem like a lot and not sure weather its because i had not really taken much notice of it before but just feels like its taking its time to load.
ok my machine is a 3.2 gig p4 with a 1 gig ram and a 320 gig hard drive now running XP
The time that i got was from when i first push the power button to when all programs are loaded (start up ones) and the PC then is free for using and the hard drive light isnt on.
Am i just being stupid and fussy or should i try another restore.
Thanks All
Posted by A L 3 X
not sure about turning on but when turning off with Xp it was like 40 seconds - 1 min now with vista its like 2-3 mins lol
Posted by paul101
i have a dual boot on my laptop and xp does take longer top boot up
Posted by Mizzle
Vista is way slower to boot. I'm booting XP in about 30 seconds. Vista would take about 2-3 minutes
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
my mac takes about 30/40 seconds to start up....
Posted by Cycovision
Anything over two minutes is way too long for XP. There's loads of possible reasons for it but it's usually a software based problem, such as too many startup items, a malfunctioning startup item or registry problems.
So doing another restore probably won't help matters. Only a fresh install, i.e. backup all of your stuff and start again from scratch, would solve the problem.
Failing hard drives can also lead to slow startups. I'd run a hardware check on the hard drive before doing a fresh install just to make sure, even if it's fairly new
Posted by Miss UK
My mates P4 Quadcore 2 machine boots up extremeley quick and that runs Vista no problem i'd say it on the net from being off at 20-30secs
and it turns off the same
My laptop is really slow but then it's going on 8 years old! (With XP)
My Pc takes about 2 mins to boot cos it keeps running all them stupid updates and then Windows defender
Posted by joebmc
My 5 year old pc boots up within a minute.
Posted by Dicky Snapples
27 seconds
Posted by procterdc
just over a minute for mine, windows xp P4, 3.2 ghz
Posted by Cycovision
Yup! My 1 year old PC takes about 30 seconds, the 3 year old one takes about 50 and the 6 year old one takes just over a minute. The 2 year old laptop takes about a minute at a guess, I don't use it much these days.
My ancient laptop (Celeron 350Mhz with 128Mb RAM
) takes about 1 minute 30 seconds but that's with a fresh install and I have absolutely nothing in the startup items except the wireless card software. I only put XP on it because the bloody wireless card refused to work properly with Windows 98. Surprisingly, it's very usable for browsing and such like!
My Linux box takes only 30 seconds, and that's an old shed running at 1Ghz with 512Mb RAM.
Good old Microsoft, eh?
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[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2007-07-18 18:19 ]
Posted by fatreg
On 2007-07-18 19:08:22, Cycovision wrote:
1Mhz
f*ck me! that's quick!!
Posted by Cycovision
Alright smartarse! post edited
Posted by The Lostprophet
pc was loading in 45seconds on vista...untill my power supply blow up
waiting for a new PSU
macbook pro takes 35secs to load mac osx and then another 40 to load windows xp
Posted by xboxman
On 2007-07-18 18:22:03, thecoolsha wrote:
I'm booting XP in about 30 seconds.
Sorry but how the hell 30 seconds???? From pressing the the power button to XP saying welcome takes around 45 seconds. I have just been through MSconfig and have just got it down to 1 min 47 seconds but thats it cant get it down anymore.
A clean install aint gonna work as i have preinstalled programs on here that i use just about everyday and they cant be downloaded so thats out of the question.
But 30 seconds i have never seen a machine boot this fast or am i missing a trick?
Posted by amnesia
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x8edU5ne0w8&mode=related&search=
this guy says his starts in 25 secs
which is roughly the speed it takes mine.
(cored2duo 6400) 2gb gaming ram, 2xGTO 7600 Sli, 250gb hd
Posted by Cycovision
30 seconds is more than possible!
I own a PC repair business and I've regularly seen some of the latest machines fully boot XP in 20-30 seconds.
Recently, I built a quad-core machine with 2 very expensive hard drives in RAID 0 and it booted in around 15 seconds!
Like I said, it's those start-up items and the fact that the registry gets mashed up over time that causes the problems.
Posted by QVGA
Its dependent on whats on your start up and how many programes you have installed.
Posted by Cycovision
...And how many programs you used to have installed. That whirring hard drive at start up is often caused by the registry calling the OS to look for programs that are no longer there!
Windows installer is shite!
Other causes:
Too many fonts installed
Too many pictures / music / videos on the system drive (stick a separate hard drive in and store them on that instead
)
Programs that require internet access in your start-up (STEAM should be banned
)
VOIP applications. Make sure they DO NOT start up automatically.
Spyware / Adware. Think you're a geek and your system is clean? Think again! You need to run two or three anti-spyware apps, not just one.
Cookies and temporary Internet files. Windows goes through them when it starts up. Clean 'em up every now and then.
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Posted by QVGA
It even matters if your pics/vid are on the same HD but on a different drive?
Posted by Cycovision
Yup! Well, specifically, any very large directories.
The reason is, as you probably know, Windows is absolutely useless at using hard drives effectively. They get fragmented very easily and very quickly. So if you store loads of discontiguous data such as large media directories on your system drive, the hard drive's head has to move to and fro over the disk surface much, much more in order to read and write the data necessary at startup.
Therefore, if you store all of your media on a separate drive, the system drive generally gets fragmented much less, leading to faster startups.
Defraging can obviously help but with today's large capacity hard drives and the amount of shit that runs in the background, it's generally no longer a viable option. Even defraging in safe mode is a painful and often fruitless experience with XP