How long does it take for your computer to load windows (after it's completely shut down)?
From the moment you push the power button until every startup program/process is loaded.

Also, post your computer specifications.

Mine takes like 50 seconds.

Can you tell me what affects the boot time?
Do the processor speed and the amount of RAM affect it?

ur computer spec will not affect much. The increase of loading time is mainly due to the number of startup program that u set to load. Load program as min as possible and ur load time will be fine.

Mine over 2 minutes...don't know why....if I hide my desktop icons it will load very long....

Yup, agree with u...

The startup program determine the boot up speed...

how to manage the start up item??? mine oso take too long to load..

curreently using acer aspire 4520 laptop wif 2gb ram..

cone somebody teach me .... =(

noob here..

hide icon will increase loading time

but i juz wonder.. 1.6ghz amd turionx2 faster or p4 2.6ghz? because my amd took lesser time compare with another desktop

Before installing VMWare 30 seconds. 40seonds until everything's loaded.

Now around 1min max. 2min max.

Laptop btw.

This post has been edited by eXPeri3nc3: Feb 8 2008, 08:21 PM

mine abt 1 minute, dunno why there is an extra white bar loading screen for AMD Athlon XP on Windows XP

having additional RAM and fast processors do help, my bro's PC can boot into Vista within seconds

This post has been edited by cyew86: Feb 8 2008, 08:54 PM

use Microsoft Bootvis to get the real result. don't "agak-agak" the time..

Why hiding desktop icons will increase boot time?

Anything more than 2GB no difference after that. I dun believe ur bro's VISTA is faster, it's probably just doesn't have much startup srvices and program install. I've dual boot VISTA and XP on my PC.

I say this is all quite pointless coz you'll never know how many startup services or programs everyone has to do an actual comparison.

IMO, the best bet is to wait for those SSD HDD. The HDD is the greatest bottleneck now.

yeaa....disable the unprimary startup program that cause ur system to slow when starting.....so far mine take less than one min...

my laptop take time around 3 minutes... i donno y so s**k...
this are items loading when i start my window...
y and how to improve it?

better show us ss when u open msconfig...

these are only things that running in my laptop...
always the same...
how any idea?

mines take 2 minute oso...

Wow u have so many program at start-up...

I only have about 10 program...

Mine is just around 20-30 sec (from powering up computer to desktop showing and ready to use) i dont have much programs running at startup including antivirus..

why your's take too long to boot up?

I bet if I disable my ZoneAlarm, Rainlendar, Kaspersky, VM services, I can reach your speed as well.

kekeke..you might be right about that as some of those softwares you mentioned are indeed bloated and heavy which could slow down your boot time like zonealarm and vmware..

i dont have these 2 programs in my windows actualy. i just use xp's built in firewall but note that it's will not filter out your outbound traffic though (your pc to network/internet) since it's been designed to only block/allow inbound/incoming traffic (network/internet to your pc) blehh..i dont really care.

and about virtual machine, my choice is virtualbox since it doesnt install so many services that have to be always running in the background. Tried vmware before but didnt like it much because of dozens of services it installed but this program undeniabley one of the great vm machine programs out there *thumbs up*

(when it comes to free vm machine, virtualbox is always the winner) *wink*