Vista Average Booting Time?

[THIERRY]

Hello Guys,

Can someone tell me the average vista ultimate booting time? Mine take at least 2-3 minutes to the full working vista desktop.I have dual boot XP and Vista. When I switch to XP instead. It only take 45 seconds or less to the full working desktop.My Pc is not infected nor bad configured. I might to appear to be a"PC Performance freak" but I want to know the average booting time?
Thanks a lot Guys!
Thierry.

[pally01]

Mine w/Ultimate is probably comparable. I thought it was better pre-SP1 but that could be a figment of my imagination.

My linux p.c. boots in about 30 seconds.

[The Village Idiot]

Mine takes 52 seconds to boot to the desktop and load most of the stuff.

[Statica]

Wow .. 2-3 minutes would raise a flag in my mind. Check your services or do a complete scan. I run a very lean machine .. and I get my desktop in about 30 seconds .. which means no crap programs showing up on my systray. The only ones (other than background services etc) that boot are AVG and Windows Live Messenger.

[HAL9000]

Vista Premium on my laptop and it's on the desktop in about 40 seconds.

[not important]

Mine will boot in about a minute. There are many things you can tweak in Vista to make it work better and boot faster. Google Vista Tweaks and check out Black Viper's (http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm) site

[THIERRY]

Thanks a lot everyone for coming forward. Please can someone tell me by the time he hits the pc switch button till the full working desktop screen, holding a stopwatch running and states his lapse of time please? Why I am asking you this ? My partner did convince me that my way of reporting vista boot time is technically wrong! I should take into account the pc power-on-self-test(post) time and discarding window boot manager as well because I have dual boot. By doing that my stopwatch shows 1.50 minutes. I recommand this exercise on people running only Vista into their pc please and if they might also no taking into account the POST time. Let's open the pandora box Guys.

Thierry.

[Statica]

Again .. dont need a stop watch it's approximately 30 seconds.

I dont take POST into account obviously because the results would be ridiculously skewed based on the onboard capabilities and devices as well as peripherals on the mobo. Why would you want to take that into account. You're talking about the Windows/software realm of boot time ... and you wouldn't want to get results from the moment the PC button is turned on. What if your BIOS was trying to look for IDE devices on every boot, whereas mine wasn't set to search? What if you ran an onboard RAID chip while you have no RAID devices (yes there are ppl who do it). With modern mobos .. even having a USB device connected might extend POST because of the search for USB mass storage devices/controllers.

I think I wouldnt be alone on this one .. but when people talk about Windows boot time .. they talk about the moment the bootloader hands over to the boot GUI.

[KilluminatiStyle]

Based on what I've seen from Vista, average boot time would float right around 1 minute on a decent machine with all updates installed. The only time I've seen Vista take a ridiculously long time to boot is when the PC is some what under powered. For example, there is an HP Media PC in our shop right now that has a Sempron 3400+ with 1GB Memory and on board video. That computer takes a good 2 minutes to make it to a usable desktop. Now granted... it has some other issues... I mean come on... it's sitting in a PC repair shop after all... but I think that for the most part these times aren't going to change too much.