How fast does your os boot up?

[Losty]

I wanted to know how fast your computers boot up with what OS installed.

I installed w2k on my new athlon64 2800 and it still takes over a minute to boot up.

At work, I don't know what they do but it takes 25 second to fully boot. Mine lingers and reads the hdd and loads stuff. I have trojan guard, aim, soundman, microsoft fast start, and norton system on boot up.

Anyone know how to decrease to boot up time?

Thanks for your replies.

-Losty

 

[dc5]

get rid of some startup programs. also, xp boots faster.

 

[nageov3t]

from powered down to browsing the internet is generally around 30 seconds.

bios is optimized for a fast start up, and the only programs that start with Windows are norton av and firefox.

 

[toant103]

remove stuff in the start up menu. Try using bootvis.

 

[drag]

Don't reboot and just put it into hybernation or sleep or whatever?

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: toant103
remove stuff in the start up menu. Try using bootvis.

Only works with Windows XP. It's no longer supported by Microsoft either and has been removed from their site.

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: mikecel79

Originally posted by: toant103
remove stuff in the start up menu. Try using bootvis.

Only works with Windows XP. It's no longer supported by Microsoft either and has been removed from their site.

Im not sure if its true or not, but apparently XP does the same process BootVis does, itself every few boots. BootVis just gave a visual representation of what was going on, and allowed a user to force the Boot Optimization..

My XP system boots to a usable desktop in about 20 seconds I believe. And yes, XP should be faster then 2K at booting.


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Losty, what takes the most time in the boot process? Is it at the "applying settings" screen? before that? Loading your programs after the desktop has appeared?


As I've said in the past, DHCP process happens during the boot, and the system will acutally pause while it waits for an IP from a DHCP server. That might be a problem... Over a minute for a boot is a long time for that system.. I'll assume its not part of a domain (which can also take time during the login process)

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Mandrake 10.x:

Average time per reboot: ~1:30
Average time spent per week rebooting: ~ 1:30 (yeah, I tend to be a little sloppy/experimental sometimes)

WinXP:

Average time per reboot: ~1:00
Average time spent per week booting: ~30 seconds
Average time spent per week rebooting (when I do use it): ~5 minutes

 

[eigen]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser

Mandrake 10.x:

Average time per reboot: ~1:30
Average time spent per week rebooting: ~ 1:30 (yeah, I tend to be a little sloppy/experimental sometimes)

WinXP:

Average time per reboot: ~1:00
Average time spent per week booting: ~30 seconds
Average time spent per week rebooting (when I do use it): ~5 minutes

good point. and one I appreciate.yeah my fc2 takes a good 1:20 to boot.But once up I its good to go all nite baby ....OOh yeah.

 

[Losty]

I don't really know ... it takes about 0:45 to get to the applying settings ... then it takes about 0:50 to boot up windows ... and about 0:15 - 0:20 to finish norton and aim instant messenger

I would say that it boots up in about 1:30 but I see the mouse hour glass and if i open IE it takes a while to get open .. (definitely not my cpu cuz it runs at over 2ghz)

If i disable the dhcp ... i could still use the internet right? I'm on a router that is directly connected to the dls modem.

I'll give it a try ...

Thanks for your responses ... 2 min is a really long time for me
I want it at most 1:30

*Drag ... that's not a bad idea, i used to have it like that, but sometimes it would mess up and i'd have to reboot to get it to work ... which pisses me off sometimes ... but i think i'll do that for now ... going to test out the dhcp ... and some other stuff to disable ...

-Losty

 

[Losty]

disabled dhcp and some other stuff ... still takes a while to boot up ... I guess thats just how it is ...
maybe i should i should install xp ... it's pretty similar right?

-Losty

 

[Klixxer]

Slackware Linux current, 40 secs. on a 1 gig orig athlon with 2 gigs of mem and a HW RAID 5 SCSI setup (Adaptec with 3 10k cheetas).