ET to boot from cold start?

IMHO this is a meaningless measurement because startup time is highly influenced by what programs are loaded during the boot process. A pc with no software other than Windows will load much faster than will most people's computers that have all sorts of programs being loaded at startup.

The other question is why does it even matter? With the stability of today's computers and operating systems I rarely reboot my computer, so the time it takes for a reboot doesn't matter. I doubt mine is booted more than once or twice a month and that, more often than not, is necessitated by new software installation and no other reason. If boot-time is that important to you, buy a solid state hard drive and boot from it.

I wont disagree but this is a factor in PC performance.

Every time I have had an issue starting to develop my PC start-up time increased over time. And I only have 9 processes running when I uncheck "Display processes for all users". So Im not loading any unnecessary programs.

The more processes & applications you have running, rebooting becomes more important to clear memory. It is the ONLY way to completely clear memory.

With all the postings regarding PC's beginning to crawl that is a main reason to reboot to properly diagnose problems. Do a search on "Why reboot a PC".

When I was at GE and you call in a problem, the first thing the Help Desk would ask you to do is reboot your PC. It is all due to memory leaks in every application on the market today.

I keep my PC cleaner than most as I have batch file utilities that run and the last statement is a reboot statement. They are run daily.

Read this first statement.
http://blog.chron.com/helpline/2009/09/why-rebooting-a-computer-fixes-some-problems/

If you dont want to reboot, fine. Dont do it just 'cause of my post.

Im just curious. Thats the way my mind works. :)

Cold boot to Windows 7 desktop, ready to go is 25 seconds. Shut down from Shutdown button to black screen is 8 seconds.

I shut computer and monitor down every day when I'm done using it. I see no sense in having the computer and monitor on, even in standby/sleep, for 8-10 hours.

fj12ryder wrote:
I shut computer and monitor down every day when I'm done using it. I see no sense in having the computer and monitor on, even in standby/sleep, for 8-10 hours.

Thats another reason - they do consume electricity in any running mode.

I don't boot to a desktop- I boot to a login screen, plus mine wastes 10 seconds asking which OS to boot :) That's for my main.
Every other box I just hibernate, which powers down as much as possible (only laptops truly power off) writing an image to disk. The laptop sleeps if plugged in.

I will time them next time I power down.

Then there is my server-

linpear:/etc# uptime
14:22:52 up 146 days, 21:56, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.05

146 days since reboot, which was for a switch to 8 cores and a doubling of disk space :)

wittmeba wrote:


The more processes & applications you have running, rebooting becomes more important to clear memory. It is the ONLY way to completely clear memory.

I used to be more concerned about clearing memory and memory leaks when I had a system with the ~3.2 GB accessible with 32-bit Windows. These days I run 64-bit Windows with 8 GB of memory and don't find memory loss to be nearly as big a problem. I just looked at Task Manager and I have ~4 GB unused; more than enough to do anything I need to.

In addition, with a fast i7 quad core processor things go so fast compared to anything I've owned in the past, so delays are far less noticeable.

I am not sure I have the info you are looking for, I just know that my computers faster than yours!:W