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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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Read my cartoon strips on B3ta.com[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2007-07-18 18:19 ]
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Posted: 2007-07-18 19:08:22
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On 2007-07-18 19:08:22, Cycovision wrote:
1Mhz
f*ck me! that's quick!!
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Posted: 2007-07-18 19:13:16
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Alright smartarse! post edited
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Posted: 2007-07-18 19:19:09
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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
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Posted: 2007-07-18 19:59:03
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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?
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Posted: 2007-07-18 20:33:07
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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
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Posted: 2007-07-18 20:57:49
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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.
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Posted: 2007-07-18 21:06:33
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Its dependent on whats on your start up and how many programes you have installed.
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Posted: 2007-07-18 21:10:06
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...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
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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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Read my cartoon strips on B3ta.com[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2007-07-18 20:20 ]
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Posted: 2007-07-18 21:13:16
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It even matters if your pics/vid are on the same HD but on a different drive?
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Posted: 2007-07-18 21:24:33
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