Hi, I always use this script that a user here once posted (forgot the name) to measure my reboot time / system performance. Just double click on it, then press OK to reboot your system and give you the reboot time. It measures the reboot time from Windows Shutting down, restarting, all the way till you first see the Windows Desktop again. Download RebootTime.vbs HERE Please post your Reboot time / System Setup / Any Tweaks you have made. I will start: System: TOSHIBA SATELLITE L655-1HC Intel Core i5 M 480 @ 2.67 / 2.93 GHz. 8 GB DDR3 RAM ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 1 GB 15.6" Toshiba TruBrite® HD TFT display Hitachi 500 GB HDD (7200 RPM) Tweaks: Set waiting time for non responding applications to 0 while shutting down Disable NTFS time stamps Disable NTFS Encryption Disable Compression in NTFS System Disable Windows Start-up Sound Disable Low Disk space Checks Disable System Restore (I never used it in my life) Disable Windows Error Reporting Disable Windows Time Service Disable Program Compatibility Assistant Disable Windows Experience Service Disable Windows Defender Clear Temp Files / Software Distribution (Windows Update Temp Downloads folder) folder Defragment Via PerfectDisk12 (Performance Aggressive Defragmentation Pass, Followed by a Boot Time Defrag Clean Registry via Auslogics Registry Cleaner Defragment Registry via Winmend Registry Defrag Disable unnecessary startup programs Software: Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit) Eset Smart Security 5 (64-Bit) SuperAntiSpyware Office 2010 Professional Plus (64-Bit) PerfectDisk 12 My Reboot Time is 36 seconds
System: Acer eMachines E642 AMD Athlon II X2 P340 @ 2,2 GHz. 2 GB DDR3 RAM ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4250 256 MB Shared 15.6" HD LED display WD 320 GB HDD (5400 RPM) Disabled Services: Application Layer Gateway Service Affinegy Mobility Management support Base Filtering Engine BitLocker Drive Encryption Service Computer Browser DHCP Client DNS Client Encrypting File System (EFS) HomeGroupProvider IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules IP Helper IPsec Policy Agent Network Connections Network List Service Network Location Awareness Network Store Interface Service Print Spooler Remote Desktop Configuration Remote Desktop Services Remote Desktop Services UserMode Port Redirector Remote Registry Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol Service Security Center Server Shell Hardware Detection SSDP Discovery TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper WebClient Windows Defender Windows Firewall Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service Workstation Other Tweaks: Enabled DEP, SEHOP, UAC at max with password Deleted network protocols: Client for Microsoft Network, File and Printer Sharing, LLT Discovery Responder Disabled NetBIOS and LMHOSTS Lookup Disabled System Restore Unchecked indexing files on HDD CCleaner (HDD and registry cleaner) QuickSys RegDefrag (reg defrag) Puran Defrag (HDD boot defrag) Software: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit) Startup: CCleaner Cleanup K10STAT (undervolting) My Lockbox (folder password protection) Setpoint (wireless mouse/keyboard control) My Reboot Time is 52 seconds
15 seconds. I have some services/ startups disabled/ set to delay but I don't worry too much about it.
Wow, thanks for the detailed overview of your system setup. I am wondering how you disable some of these services. Such as Computer Browser, isn't it needed if you wanna see computer on the network? If you have time, can you just type a brief about these services for us to be able to determine if we can follow you too? Thanks alot
15 seconds? Are you sure that is from Windows, to shut down, to POST, to reboot? or are you just measuring the boot time? Please tell us your system setup. I bet you have an SSD if you really meant that's your reboot time
I have a hybrid drive. It varies between 15 and 20, I used "boottimer.exe" last time to check. I'll try this one now. edit: wtf? This isn't working for me... I don't think. I think Comodo sandbox'd it lol edit2: definitely not working, won't shut my computer down
Hi, Another really good reboot speed test programme is http://www.greatis.com/bootracer/. I use this programme all the time and my boot time is 56 seconds on a 4 year old system running windows 7 64bit.
The Computer Browser service is only needed to elect a "browse master", which is one computer on your subnet, that keeps track of "who is who". You only need one browse master. Keeping this service enabled can cause "browse master elections", which "could" create some collisions/excess traffic on your network. google it and see what it is all about. I always turn mine off. At work, the primary server has it on. No elections going on there This takes too much time, and most of us read about a service, decide we don't need it, and move on. I would point you to google blackviper, there are comprehensive definitions and settings there for you to explore. I would also recommend you google "pserv" and use that to make an .xml backup of your current services before you start messing with them. Using pserv allows you to import the backup, and essentially restore your system. Messing with services is a great thing to do if you want to learn something useful, but can also be destructive to proper booting/operation if you mess up. Pserv is my favorite tool for such purposes. My boot time is roughly 10 seconds if you don't count BIOS related stuff. That means from the time it POSTS, to typing in password, is about 10 seconds. Counting my BIOS and boot loader, it is roughly 25 seconds. I have an Intel SSD drive. My rig is older, C2D, nothing much. I have tweaked my machine in every way possible. Sul.
This is my old "freeware-only" system. Reboot time measured by RebootTime.vbs: 45 seconds. (probably counting the time to type BIOS password and the time to type windows user account password as well) Very old hardware: Infoway Notebook W7635 Intel Celeron M 430 1.73 GHz 80 GB HDD (5400 RPM) 512 MB DDR2 RAM VIA Chrome9 HC IGP 256 MB Shared 15.4" WXGA Wide Screen OS: Windows XP Pro SP3 Browsing software: Pale Moon 3.6 series + AdBlock Plus + EasyList + DownThemAll! + SkipScreen + LiveClick General software: Flash Player + MalwareBytes Anti-Malware on-demand only + SpywareBlaster + WLM 2009 + Media Player Classic Home Cinema + Mp3Tag + 7-Zip Portable + Snippy + CPU-Z + PC Wizard + uTorrent + SumatraPDF + Warcraft 3 TFT Manutention software: CleanMem + CCleaner + winapp2.ini + Black Viper Safe XP SP3 services .reg + Defraggler + SG TCP Optimizer + Eusing Free Registry Cleaner + Eusing Free Registry Defrag + xp-AntiSpy + so many manual tweaks at everything that I can't build a list.
Hello, I clocked my boot time this morning, and it came in at just over four minutes. That's from 7 x64's Starting Windows message to when the CPU gauge on 7 Sidebar drops from 100% to the normal 15-20%. Regards, Nathan
My advise to you is using some of your listed software posted elsewhere on this forum because these figures are far from normal. Not to say there must be a lot of scrap on that machine. Gerard
Woooo. 54 seconds. Ye Old tower is going on 9yrs with XP and a bucketload of stuff installed. There's life in the old beast yet. Special mention must be made about a recent master-stroke. Unistalled the AV. The PC feels like a bird instead of a buffalo.
System: Custom built AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 4 GB DDR2 RAM ATI Radeon HD 4350 (512 MB) 24" VisionQuest LCD display 2 Hitachi 1 TB RAID 0 (7200RPM) Tweaks: Too many to remember, somewhat similar to yours CCleaner w/ CCEnhancer Glary Utilities Portable Kingsoft PC Doctor Puran Defrag (Automatic and Boot) CleanMem Registry edits, but never cleaning (always had to restore) Autoruns and WinPatrol disable unnecessary items. Startup: Windows 7 64-bit Professional AquaSnap Avast! Free Antivirus CleanMem Comodo Internet Security Premium Dataram Ramdisk (256 MB save on shutdown) Ditto F.lux FileBox Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Pro Nuonsoft Wallpaper Cycler NVRaidService Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro Process Lasso Puran Defrag Sandboxie 8 Windows Sidebar Gadgets VMware WinPatrol WizMouse WordWeb Pretty proud of my time, considering how much software I use.
AMD fusion netbook on Natty x64 18 seconds. Vaio i7 laptop Natty x64 11 seconds Kubuntu 11.04 desktop dual Xeon 16gb ram 7 seconds flat
Is that really reboot time, or is it only boot? System: Acer Aspire One ZG5 Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz 1.5 GB DDR2 RAM Onboard Memory 8.9" LCD 8 GB SSD Tweaks: Removed some default programs I never use BleachBit Ubuntu Tweak Gconf-editor changes Startup: Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (11.04) f.lux Glipper 3 Screenlets System Load Indicator 105 seconds
