How fast is your boot time?

[.spider.]

this is mine when I do a cold boot.

 

Your Windows start up time cant be 0s

[sterreprop]

Your Windows start up time cant be 0s

It says 10.3...

[Briggsy]

12 seconds roughly, give or take.

[DimasRMDO]

Around 10 seconds, using Kingston V300 120GB.

Windows 7 Ultimate.

Without Fast Boot.

[.spider.]

It says 10.3...

That's just the time of the bios post so if your system boots to windows in 10.3s your windows start up time is 0

[GoodBytes]

I don't think the startup time in Windows includes Windows itself.

On my Surface Pro 2 it reports 2.7sec, but it is 6sec in reality, it is really the UEFI boot process itself.

[sterreprop]

That's just the time of the bios post so if your system boots to windows in 10.3s your windows start up time is 0

Oh ok i get it.

I timed it from the moment i pressed the power button my stopwatch says 30secs. 

[ShiftHitTheFan]

Less than 5 sec on msi fast boot. 7-10 with it off.

[RollinLower]

mine's 35 seconds without fastboot!

[othertomperson]

Longer then I'm willing to sit in front of it and count for. Another reason why you shouldn't use a green drive as your boot drive. I don't mind though, only time it cold boots is in the morning when I wake up, I'll go take a piss and wash my face and come back and it'll be on by then.

 

I used to use a Black as a boot drive and that took infuriatingly long. I think people should just not use mechanical boot drives at all in a world in which SSDs are like £40.

[Levent]

Laptop: 7 seconds straight to desktop, Windows 8.1(Hybrid boot is enabled), 850 Evo 120

PC: 13 seconds to desktop with a shit ton of services apps and few servers running, Windows 7, 840 Evo 120G

PS: I've set Maximum Number of Processors to "4" on both PC and laptop and disabled startup animation, these make boot process faster.

[dcb-z]

My old desktop took something over 15 minutes to be useable. My current rig takes about 30 to 45 seconds.

[NightMiu]

Without fast boot, 40sec bois boot and 20 sec to get into windows. Total 1 min.

[Vivilacqua1]

14 seconds, seagate hdd to windows 8.1 pro login screen.

[Arty]

everyone retest after windows 10 launch

especially if you on windows 7. You will see a boost.

[Lays]

Like 12 seconds to desktop, i dont have a Windows "user account" so there is no login screen

[Speaker1264]

That's just the time of the bios post so if your system boots to windows in 10.3s your windows start up time is 0

 

It is better to use the task manager bios time, imo, since it is consistent, and if someone has a long bios time they are likely to have a proportionately long boot time.  If we want to be super technical here everyone should be recording their boot times and then measuring, frame by frame, with a definitive start point and end point that remains the same between all submissions. For example:

 

0 seconds the light on my computer lit up. (0 seconds)

7.2 seconds later the light on my monitor lit up. (7.2 seconds)

2.53 seconds later an image appeared on my monitor. (9.73 seconds)

8.97 seconds later I saw some Windows text. (18.7 seconds)

1.5 seconds later I saw the desktop background. (20.2 seconds)

 

The Last Bios Time in the Task Manager listed 6.4 seconds.  This was with Windows 8.1, on my Crucial M4 120GB SSD, with Fast Boot enabled, and Hybrid Boot disabled.  This was recorded at 30 fps.

[onemanarmy720]

9.5 sec

[starwarsguy99]

My HDD used to take like 5 mins to boot and then another 5-10 to load the icons on Windows

Need to test my SSD, but I'm sure it's faster

[ice856]

1 minute on win7 and 30 seconds on win8 and i dont know if its fast boot or not