The script is a guide and as people have noted, there can be variation. The script is useful in letting you test-drive. I have seen that restart time can also vary even when executed sequentially and immediately. Plus, there are 10% chances that times can be way off not because of the script, but because of the fact that sometimes when `starting windows', the four windows take extra time. That can easily add another 30-45 secs. Overall, the script is very useful in letting us tweak and see.
No tweaking whatsoever, unless you count disabling a couple of unnecessary services such as Windows Firewall, Windows Search and Windows Defender etc. But then all of these services were disabled on the old installation also (restart time 70 seconds) so obviously they cannot be responsible for the 10 seconds difference. The massive gain definitely came from the fresh install, since the rest of the setup, both hard- and software-wise, did not change at all. It is still the very same machine set up in the very same way with the very same programs installed as before. Now since somebody said 'share details', here goes: Detailed Specs of Machine AMD690G RS690/SB600 AM2 Mainboard @ FSB220/HT1100 AMD Athlon64 X2 Brisbane DualCore CPU @ 2970MHz (13.5x220) 2GB TakeMS DDR2-800 DualChanneled RAM @ 4-4-4-12 | 1T | 330MHz (CPU/9) WesternDigital WD3200JB 320GB SystemDrive @ IDE/UDMA5 nVidia GTX260 GraphicsCard / Latest Drivers For Non-Techs: Today the machine as a whole could at best be called upper medium-class anymore. Chipset and CPU are overclocked by 10%, MemoryBus/RAM is underclocked by 18%. The CPU speed could be called 'pretty decent' while the RAM timings fall in the 'quite fast' category. The system drive runs on the old PATA100 interface, which provides 33% (or one third) of the transmission rate of a SATA-II interface. (100MB/s vs. 300MB/s) The graphics card and its driver shouldnt have any discernable influence on the startup time. 3rd-Party Autostarting Programs AMD DualCore Optimizer Avira AntiVir 10 Comodo Firewall 3.14 CursorFX Realtek HD Audio Manager Sysmetrix Unlocker
I know windows search disable can have some positive effect on restart and response time, but then why pay for core i 7+5 gb when I have to disable. Used to disable it in xp but not in win 7. OC: not done not because I am scared but perhaps will think about it when I upgrade the power supply. Thanks anyway for some useful tips.
take a lookie here , 800x faster than a 10.000rpm raptor , (not 80 x as I wrote earlier) XP boot time of 4 secs I dont have a camcorder ,(into still photography only) I have been using HyperOS since 2003 ,in those days it had a ram drive biult into the software . these new ramdrives are superb albeit a bit pricey .buying the ram almost bankrupted me . 12 4gb sticks of DDR2 667 memory is bloody expensive even with a discount for bulk sales. I have not yet timed it but I keep win 7 installation disk (files) on one of the hard drives ,I can install win7 completely in around 8-10 minutes. and that is including me having to type in serial and selecting language etc. these disks run rings around SSD (nand) disks as they have equally good read and write. speeds. If you do a search on youtube for say ramdisk or hyperdrive5 or acard ramdisk or gigabyte iram you should find plenty of videos ,although most are crap there are one or two that show off the speed . I use 2 Hyperdrive 5M with 24gb each installed total 48gb raided (0)
This may seem unreal even to me but it should be possible if everything is tuned right I can only imagine how fast Ubuntu would run... I'm taking a guess here so here goes typically PCI-E (16x=16GB) has a higher bandwidth than Sata (6 GB) does by about 3 times over so hence the devilishly fast speed he's getting... The downside is the amount of storage he is getting which would only be 24 GB that only enough to run the OS and a few games at most but they would be freakin fast as hell this would probably be faster than raiding a crap load of SSD's together and maybe just maybe worth the price... Since you can't make a video of this how bout uploading the bench mark of windows 7 as proof it will convince some people.. Also you should be getting a faster install time cause I'm running a WD 500 GB black edition raid and the install is about 5 minutes I may be off thou... I can only imagine how DDR3 would perform on this type of system (and yes this is a little mouth watering lol)
your right about the install speeds ,The last few OS intallations were onto the hard drive (750gb seagate). come to think of it I dont think I have inmstalled directly onto the ramdrive .I keep several OSs on the main hard drive and copy them over to the ramdrive when needed. HyperOS sorts out the whole proces of managing this and backing up and maintaining all the other OSs too . Although the system in question is not state of the art ,in fact its quite average ,the ramdisk transforms everything , and raid 2 of them together and it will stack up and beat any modern PC.
Must be something wrong I have a 4wk old Dell Studio laptop - i5 processor 4Mb Ram Win7 64. Startup time is a stupid 232 seconds. What diagnostics can I run to establish why its sooooo slow Thanks Simon
I'm on sp1 beta and the boot time is longer than before (reboot is about 2-3 min) !!! My config is : Asrock N68-S AM3, AMD Athlon II X2 240 2,8Ghz, 2 GB DDR2 800Hhz RAM, Samsung 160 Gb SATA HDD, Sapphire ATI Radeon HD4650 1GB DDR2 PCI-E, Windows 7 Professional 32bit SP1 7601.16537 Hungarian
I got 36 seconds on my Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit). But i use an OCZ Vertex S-ATA II 120 GB SSD as my OS disk. But i have a question. I want to see how fast my computer is to start up only, so does anyone have a script for that?.