Windows 8 Boot time

[stealthwolf]

Improving boot times was one of the aims of Win8. But a lot of this will be down to hardware too so there will be changes that manufacturers will need to make to help with some of the features in Win8.

[Dan34]

Just started to download the beta, will report back once its downloaded which could take a few days haha

[Jimp]

My boot time is like 20 seconds on Win 7, how much faster do you need it to be 

[Jay]

My boot time is like 20 seconds on Win 7, how much faster do you need it to be 

I can make it quicker without changing the hardware


This shaved 10 seconds off my boot time on my i7,16gb beast
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140262-how-to-speed-up-boot-process-under-windows-vista-or-windows-7/

[Dolly]

isnt the boot time down to the HDD or more like the SSD?

im not a computer guru i use xp and linux mint because its free lol.

[Horney]

I see they've announced they're dropping flash support on Metro Win 8. Seems SJ wasn't too far off the mark but maybe peaked a little early.

That boot up is pretty damn fast. My MBP will boot in about 20 secs which is fast enough for me although I can trim that down to about 10 is I stuck an SSD in it.

Nick

[Organisys]

Not exaclty a fresh cold boot though is it?

 

[Jay]

No it's not and it is a bit of a cheat, but will the average person care how it's done? nope

[Ridg]

Improving boot times was one of the aims of Win8. But a lot of this will be down to hardware too so there will be changes that manufacturers will need to make to help with some of the features in Win8.

not really, they have changed the way windows actually loads; part of this is done by saving the system state to the harddrive similar to if you hibernate your pc, most of the demo vids were done on magnetic drives, so could be speeded up further with an SSD

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/windows-8-boot-time-to-be-drastically-reduced-shown-off-in-vide/

[Organisys]

No it's not and it is a bit of a cheat, but will the average person care how it's done? nope

Fine for web browsing i guess, assuming plugins / browser / OS manages memory OK, i.e. used memory is returned OK once an app closes. Not traditionally one of Windows strong points!