Windows 7 Will Boot In As Little As 11 Seconds?

[kazuya]

For those of you who have tested the beta or the Windows 7 RTM code, this might not come as any surprise. For those of us whose production machines still run Windows XP (Ziff-Davis and Intel, among others) the improved performance of Microsoft's new operating system is a nice surprise.

One of those surprises was delivered Wednesday, when Microsoft paired a quad-core Intel Core i7 microprocessor with a solid-state-disc drive and what Ruston Panabaker, the principal program manager for strategic silicon partnering at Microsoft, called a generic build of Windows 7. Panabaker fired up the system, and presto! An 11-second boot time.

Windows 7 Will Boot In As Little As 11 Seconds - Lab Notes by ExtremeTech

[LongbowArcher]

I can confirm this. Windows 7 (Windows 7 Professional German from MSDNAA) needs at least 15 seconds to boot completly on my system after a restart (Dell Studio XPS 16).
From Hiberantion I need 10 seconds to get to the desktop.

[SBfreak]

I restarted my PC.Windows 7 just installed.It took exactly 18 seconds.This may be for real.

[kazuya]

Windows 7 works great.i gonna trow my Vista away

[SealLion]

Windows 7 works great.i gonna trow my Vista away

After hearing and reading about all the good news from you guys, I am sooooo glad I never bothered to purchase bloated Vista.

Still have XP.....just like a regular die-hard.

For me, b/c I've got only a small amount of RAM, my XP starts from start to desktop in about 40 secs.
YOu guys put me to shame. :(

[anon]

Still have XP.....just like a regular die-hard.

For me, b/c I've got only a small amount of RAM, my XP starts from start to desktop in about 40 secs.
YOu guys put me to shame. :(

Don't worry... I have 1.5GB of RAM and XP takes like a minute or so to boot up. I don't mind waiting, though, but these news make me more anxious to upgrade to 7 (or to be more specific, eXPer1ence's modded version) once it's out.

[SealLion]

yes. I agree with you. I remember you having told me about eXPer1ence's XP releases. They are actually really good. I like them too.

But I'm glad to hear that I"m not the only one suffering with the 'boot-up blues'.

I am also anxious to upgrade to 7.

[Darth]

The magic on this that new 'parallel computing' feature. Means that win7 allocates the computing on all the cores simutaneously in the booting sequence. Nice one M$ :)

[zipang]

My PC has 2 Windows which are XP and 7.
Actually, XP boots faster than 7.

[SealLion]

The magic on this that new 'parallel computing' feature. Means that win7 allocates the computing on all the cores simutaneously in the booting sequence. Nice one M$ :)

NOw that's smart for MS to do.
I wonder how they managed to do that, though.
I think that currently, if I were to use XP (correct me if I"m wrong, though), XP boots in an order to get to the eventual desktop.