How long does it take you to boot XP?

[Guest Spiral]

Little survey here--and if you have fast times, please mention your mobo and

processor.

 

I get 22 seconds on a six-year old Intel PBZ with a P4 3.0, Raid 0.

A networked, but stripped down XP (minimal services except for virus).

 

I think that's good but I'm sure newer machines will beat it easily...

interested to hear yours--no cheating! (shopping for a mobo)

[Guest Terry R.]

Re: How long does it take you to boot XP?

 

The date and time was 8/21/2008 1:49 PM, and on a whim, Spiral pounded

out on the keyboard:

> Little survey here--and if you have fast times, please mention your mobo and

> processor.

>

> I get 22 seconds on a six-year old Intel PBZ with a P4 3.0, Raid 0.

> A networked, but stripped down XP (minimal services except for virus).

>

> I think that's good but I'm sure newer machines will beat it easily...

> interested to hear yours--no cheating! (shopping for a mobo)

 

DFI KT-600AL mb w/AMD 3000+ 1 gig RAM 7200 rpm drives. Boots in 15

seconds, and that's with PageDefrag running on boot also (with no delay

set). While that gives me a Desktop, it takes about another 15-20

seconds before everything is loaded and I can quickly move about.

 

I work on quite a few client machines each week and I feel like this old

workstation is quicker than most Dell Intel duo-core machines. Hard to

compare apples to apples, but response time doing normal tasks is still

quick on this workstation.

 

--

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[Guest Spiral]

Re: How long does it take you to boot XP?

 

Terry R. wrote:

> The date and time was 8/21/2008 1:49 PM, and on a whim, Spiral pounded

> out on the keyboard:

>

>> Little survey here--and if you have fast times, please mention your mobo

>> and processor.

>>

>> I get 22 seconds on a six-year old Intel PBZ with a P4 3.0, Raid 0.

>> A networked, but stripped down XP (minimal services except for virus).

>>

>> I think that's good but I'm sure newer machines will beat it easily...

>> interested to hear yours--no cheating! (shopping for a mobo)

>

> I work on quite a few client machines each week and I feel like this old

> workstation is quicker than most Dell Intel duo-core machines. Hard to

> compare apples to apples, but response time doing normal tasks is still

> quick on this workstation.

 

I guess I should have said, until you have a cursor arrow over the start

button, or, no hour glass, which to me is the indication of when it is fully

booted.

 

As I build different machines, I'm getting that same vibe you got--that CPU

increases are not increases en masse, but at certain tasks, keeping the old

ones decently in the running...

 

Cheers

[Guest Dustin Cook]

Re: How long does it take you to boot XP?

 

Spiral <spiral@spongy.com> wrote in

news:7_CdnWjeVNkjZDDVnZ2dnUVZ_r7inZ2d@supernews.com:

> Terry R. wrote:

>

>> The date and time was 8/21/2008 1:49 PM, and on a whim, Spiral

>> pounded out on the keyboard:

>>

>>> Little survey here--and if you have fast times, please mention your

>>> mobo and processor.

>>>

>>> I get 22 seconds on a six-year old Intel PBZ with a P4 3.0, Raid 0.

>>> A networked, but stripped down XP (minimal services except for

>>> virus).

>>>

>>> I think that's good but I'm sure newer machines will beat it

>>> easily... interested to hear yours--no cheating! (shopping for a

>>> mobo)

>>

>> I work on quite a few client machines each week and I feel like this

>> old workstation is quicker than most Dell Intel duo-core machines.

>> Hard to compare apples to apples, but response time doing normal

>> tasks is still quick on this workstation.

>

> I guess I should have said, until you have a cursor arrow over the

> start button, or, no hour glass, which to me is the indication of when

> it is fully booted.

>

> As I build different machines, I'm getting that same vibe you

> got--that CPU increases are not increases en masse, but at certain

> tasks, keeping the old ones decently in the running...

>

> Cheers

>

>

 

certain tasks, and the amount of tasks you can run and well make a big

difference. Virtual Machines, CAD apps, etc...

 

 

--

Regards,

Dustin Cook, Author of BugHunter

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MalwareBytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org

[Guest Mike Hall - MVP]

Re: How long does it take you to boot XP?

 

"Spiral" <spiral@spongy.com> wrote in message

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> Little survey here--and if you have fast times, please mention your mobo

> and

> processor.

>

> I get 22 seconds on a six-year old Intel PBZ with a P4 3.0, Raid 0.

> A networked, but stripped down XP (minimal services except for virus).

>

> I think that's good but I'm sure newer machines will beat it easily...

> interested to hear yours--no cheating! (shopping for a mobo)

 

 

Getting to the point where a machine can boot so fast requires stripping

down to the point where all one has is an operating system. I have never

seen much point in doing this. I favour usability over raw speed..

 

 

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[Guest Spiral]

Re: How long does it take you to boot XP?

 

Mike Hall - MVP wrote:

> "Spiral" <spiral@spongy.com> wrote in message

> news:hZ-dndgQ89hOSTDVnZ2dnUVZ_sninZ2d@supernews.com...

>> Little survey here--and if you have fast times, please mention your mobo

>> and

>> processor.

>>

>> I get 22 seconds on a six-year old Intel PBZ with a P4 3.0, Raid 0.

>> A networked, but stripped down XP (minimal services except for virus).

>>

>> I think that's good but I'm sure newer machines will beat it easily...

>> interested to hear yours--no cheating! (shopping for a mobo)

>

>

> Getting to the point where a machine can boot so fast requires stripping

> down to the point where all one has is an operating system. I have never

> seen much point in doing this. I favour usability over raw speed..

 

You can in fact strip excessively, I agree, but I run the entire Adobe suite,

Photoshop & Premiere, Illustrator, etc., use a video capture PCI card,

messes o' fonts, Dreamweaver and web everything. Also, the wonderful DVD

Flick (gotta plug this open source app!), which takes AVI files and cooks

them into a DVD while keeping a/v in synch. (that's where I'd like to retire

the ol' P4 into something quad-like).

In addition, I use Cerebrus as an FTP server to mozy huge files back and

forth on the network plus SLING the TV on it in a TV window (olympics).

Trying to make a case for it's usability!

I think everything works smoother when you pimp-slap some of the services

from XP...

Was hoping to hear about some insane boot times from quad-core people...

[Guest Rey Santos]

Re: How long does it take you to boot XP?

 

'Its also about the processes running at startups. You may have system

booting at a fast speed but it may not take long, you even failed to mention

any security programs in your system if here is any, which others says cause

a lot baggage.

 

--

Rey

 

 

"Spiral" wrote:

> Mike Hall - MVP wrote:

>

> > "Spiral" <spiral@spongy.com> wrote in message

> > news:hZ-dndgQ89hOSTDVnZ2dnUVZ_sninZ2d@supernews.com...

> >> Little survey here--and if you have fast times, please mention your mobo

> >> and

> >> processor.

> >>

> >> I get 22 seconds on a six-year old Intel PBZ with a P4 3.0, Raid 0.

> >> A networked, but stripped down XP (minimal services except for virus).

> >>

> >> I think that's good but I'm sure newer machines will beat it easily...

> >> interested to hear yours--no cheating! (shopping for a mobo)

> >

> >

> > Getting to the point where a machine can boot so fast requires stripping

> > down to the point where all one has is an operating system. I have never

> > seen much point in doing this. I favour usability over raw speed..

>

> You can in fact strip excessively, I agree, but I run the entire Adobe suite,

> Photoshop & Premiere, Illustrator, etc., use a video capture PCI card,

> messes o' fonts, Dreamweaver and web everything. Also, the wonderful DVD

> Flick (gotta plug this open source app!), which takes AVI files and cooks

> them into a DVD while keeping a/v in synch. (that's where I'd like to retire

> the ol' P4 into something quad-like).

> In addition, I use Cerebrus as an FTP server to mozy huge files back and

> forth on the network plus SLING the TV on it in a TV window (olympics).

> Trying to make a case for it's usability!

> I think everything works smoother when you pimp-slap some of the services

> from XP...

> Was hoping to hear about some insane boot times from quad-core people...

>

>

[Guest Galen Somerville]

Re: How long does it take you to boot XP?

 

 

"Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:3C3886A4-7449-4848-B041-01187221C0DF@microsoft.com...

> 'Its also about the processes running at startups. You may have system

> booting at a fast speed but it may not take long, you even failed to

> mention

> any security programs in your system if here is any, which others says

> cause

> a lot baggage.

>

> --

> Rey

>

>

> "Spiral" wrote:

>

>> Mike Hall - MVP wrote:

>>

>> > "Spiral" <spiral@spongy.com> wrote in message

>> > news:hZ-dndgQ89hOSTDVnZ2dnUVZ_sninZ2d@supernews.com...

>> >> Little survey here--and if you have fast times, please mention your

>> >> mobo

>> >> and

>> >> processor.

>> >>

>> >> I get 22 seconds on a six-year old Intel PBZ with a P4 3.0, Raid 0.

>> >> A networked, but stripped down XP (minimal services except for virus).

>> >>

>> >> I think that's good but I'm sure newer machines will beat it easily...

>> >> interested to hear yours--no cheating! (shopping for a mobo)

>> >

>> >

>> > Getting to the point where a machine can boot so fast requires

>> > stripping

>> > down to the point where all one has is an operating system. I have

>> > never

>> > seen much point in doing this. I favour usability over raw speed..

>>

>> You can in fact strip excessively, I agree, but I run the entire Adobe

>> suite,

>> Photoshop & Premiere, Illustrator, etc., use a video capture PCI card,

>> messes o' fonts, Dreamweaver and web everything. Also, the wonderful DVD

>> Flick (gotta plug this open source app!), which takes AVI files and cooks

>> them into a DVD while keeping a/v in synch. (that's where I'd like to

>> retire

>> the ol' P4 into something quad-like).

>> In addition, I use Cerebrus as an FTP server to mozy huge files back and

>> forth on the network plus SLING the TV on it in a TV window (olympics).

>> Trying to make a case for it's usability!

>> I think everything works smoother when you pimp-slap some of the services

>> from XP...

>> Was hoping to hear about some insane boot times from quad-core people...

>>

>>

Mine boots reasonably fast but then I wait while AVG does an update, etc.

 

Galen

[Guest Spiral]

Re: How long does it take you to boot XP?

 

Rey Santos wrote:

> 'Its also about the processes running at startups. You may have system

> booting at a fast speed but it may not take long, you even failed to

> mention any security programs in your system if here is any, which others

> says cause a lot baggage.

>

 

My initiating post mentions I run a virus program--ask and I'll plug it (I

love this one after trying them all) but no firewall, spyware or any other

stuff. Safely behind a NAT Router, so I keep from buying the latest weekly

$40.00 scare prevention.