System boot time Vista vs. XP

Posted: 06-19-2006, 03:20 PM

Angel Massa

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I've checked the boot time to compare how fast is Vista compared to XP. I
know that this time change depending of the software installed and many
other things. But I only wanted a simple comparison of the two systems on
the same hardware.

I have my previous XP partition with all my software and information on one
drive and I've added a second drive to intall and test Vista. Vista only has
Office 2007 beta 2 installed and XP has much more software installed.

I've counted the time from clicking on the boot menu OS choice to the login
screen.

Windows XP: 25 seconds.
Windows Vista: 1 minute 5 seconds.

I thinks this is extremelly slow for a clean system and same hardware
configuration.

What's your experience with boot time with Vista?

Regards,
Angel.

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Will Schuitman

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Re: System boot time Vista vs. XP

Posted: 06-19-2006, 03:37 PM

I have my vista installation on a different drive too and it's actually
quicker than Xp
my xp boots in about 40 seconds and vista in around 30 or so and I have
pretty much the same progs on each
"Angel Massa" <angel2@puntweb.com> wrote in message
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> I've checked the boot time to compare how fast is Vista compared to XP. I
> know that this time change depending of the software installed and many
> other things. But I only wanted a simple comparison of the two systems on
> the same hardware.
>
> I have my previous XP partition with all my software and information on
> one drive and I've added a second drive to intall and test Vista. Vista
> only has Office 2007 beta 2 installed and XP has much more software
> installed.
>
> I've counted the time from clicking on the boot menu OS choice to the
> login screen.
>
> Windows XP: 25 seconds.
> Windows Vista: 1 minute 5 seconds.
>
> I thinks this is extremelly slow for a clean system and same hardware
> configuration.
>
> What's your experience with boot time with Vista?
>
> Regards,
> Angel.
>

BillD

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RE: System boot time Vista vs. XP

Posted: 06-19-2006, 03:49 PM

"Angel Massa" wrote:

>I've counted the time from clicking on the boot menu OS choice to the login

screen.

> Windows XP: 25 seconds.
> Windows Vista: 1 minute 5 seconds.

I have a PC with overall rating = 1
Windows XP with all programs: < 10 seconds
Windows Vista without programs: < 30 seconds

Ryan

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RE: System boot time Vista vs. XP

Posted: 06-20-2006, 08:01 AM

Bill,

I don't buy into your 30 seconds for Vista on a 1 rating. That's a lie.

"BillD" wrote:

>
>
> "Angel Massa" wrote:
>
> >I've counted the time from clicking on the boot menu OS choice to the login
> screen.
> > Windows XP: 25 seconds.
> > Windows Vista: 1 minute 5 seconds.
>
> I have a PC with overall rating = 1
> Windows XP with all programs: < 10 seconds
> Windows Vista without programs: < 30 seconds

Colin Barnhorst

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Re: System boot time Vista vs. XP

Posted: 06-19-2006, 04:07 PM

It is not a fair comparison yet. Vista code has not been optimized (cannot
be until bugfixing is finished).

"Angel Massa" <angel2@puntweb.com> wrote in message
news:uUgQ9t6kGHA.1664@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> I've checked the boot time to compare how fast is Vista compared to XP. I
> know that this time change depending of the software installed and many
> other things. But I only wanted a simple comparison of the two systems on
> the same hardware.
>
> I have my previous XP partition with all my software and information on
> one drive and I've added a second drive to intall and test Vista. Vista
> only has Office 2007 beta 2 installed and XP has much more software
> installed.
>
> I've counted the time from clicking on the boot menu OS choice to the
> login screen.
>
> Windows XP: 25 seconds.
> Windows Vista: 1 minute 5 seconds.
>
> I thinks this is extremelly slow for a clean system and same hardware
> configuration.
>
> What's your experience with boot time with Vista?
>
> Regards,
> Angel.
>

Angel Massa

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Re: System boot time Vista vs. XP

Posted: 06-19-2006, 04:31 PM

I know it's not fair and that boot times depends of many factors. But I only
wanted to know about other users and a rough comparison with XP.

Regards,
Angel.

> It is not a fair comparison yet. Vista code has not been optimized
> (cannot be until bugfixing is finished).

Conor

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Re: System boot time Vista vs. XP

Posted: 06-19-2006, 05:18 PM

In article <eWx0rV7kGHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, Angel Massa says...

> I know it's not fair and that boot times depends of many factors. But I only
> wanted to know about other users and a rough comparison with XP.
>

But it is completely pointless comparing it to XP.

--
Conor
Grumpy Old Man
Same Shit, Different Day.

Angel Massa

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Re: System boot time Vista vs. XP

Posted: 06-19-2006, 05:34 PM

Comparing them I can make a rough idea of what will be the boot time.

I don't espect that if Vista now takes one minute to boot after optimization
it jumps to 10 seconds to boot. Provably it will boot faster but not that
much.

Regards,
Angel.

> But it is completely pointless comparing it to XP.
>
>
> --
> Conor
> Grumpy Old Man
> Same Shit, Different Day.

Colin Barnhorst

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Re: System boot time Vista vs. XP

Posted: 06-19-2006, 06:02 PM

No, you cannot yet tell what the boot time for Vista will be. Much of the
code optimization goes to this very thing. Optimization cannot be done
while the code is being updated with bugfixes (it would just have to be done
over again). Optimization will make a big big difference in how efficiently
the code will run. Do not underestimate how much impact optimization will
have.

Optimization will take into account hardware released since XP went final in
2001 so the comparison will be unfavorable to XP. The only fair comparison
would be if both XP and Vista were optimized for 2006 hardware, but only
Vista will be.

"Angel Massa" <angel2@puntweb.com> wrote in message
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> Comparing them I can make a rough idea of what will be the boot time.
>
> I don't espect that if Vista now takes one minute to boot after
> optimization it jumps to 10 seconds to boot. Provably it will boot faster
> but not that much.
>
> Regards,
> Angel.
>
>> But it is completely pointless comparing it to XP.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Conor
>> Grumpy Old Man
>> Same Shit, Different Day.
>
>

Les Herrman

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Re: System boot time Vista vs. XP

Posted: 06-20-2006, 03:10 PM

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:31:27 +0200, "Angel Massa" <angel2@puntweb.com>
wrote:

>I know it's not fair and that boot times depends of many factors. But I only
>wanted to know about other users and a rough comparison with XP.
>
>Regards,
>Angel.

Actually Vista tewlls me that two device drivers are slowing down the
boot on my machine (Takes about 1 min 20 sec.)

The interesting thing about it is that both of those drivers are MS
supplied drivers and items.

>
>> It is not a fair comparison yet. Vista code has not been optimized
>> (cannot be until bugfixing is finished).
>
>

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