Study: Vista Startup Time is Faster Than Win 7

[Bert R]

I just don't understand things like this... I have been running the Windows 7 RC for a few months now and can still say my startup times are much more in the neighborhood of 45 seconds. And I have TONS of stuff on my computer. Heck, I should probably defragment my drive this weekend because it's been a while.

BTW, how exactly do they define a "new machine?"

 

[nachowarrior]

so your saying i should get windows $hista and throttle my functionality down to a minimum and also format e\/ery 2 months... information like this is useless. When you going to do an article on linux? honestly. Screw e\/ery other article being about windows...

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]nachowarrior[/nom]so your saying i should get windows $hista and throttle my functionality down to a minimum and also format e\/ery 2 months... information like this is useless. When you going to do an article on linux? honestly. Screw e\/ery other article being about windows...[/citation]
Mate there's one on the front page...

 

[sonic-boom]

this is pretty depressing actually

 

[dreamer77dd]

I don't shutdown very often on a computer and don't believe 7 second to boot up could happen with a SSD with Win7. It will probably become even longer to load once they get new hardware for the operating system and all those new bios that need to load up at start so running it is smooth. I really hope Win7 could take advantage of my GPU or 4 core chip. what is Win7 able to take advantage of?

 

[JimmiG]

Windows 7 sets many of the servies to "Automatic (Delayed Start)" instead of just "Automatic" like Vista does. This causes the services to not start until all the "Automatic" services have started. When the services do begin to initialize, they do so with the lowest priority. This means that it will indeed take longer after the desktop has appeared until hard drive activity and CPU usage drops to near-zero. However you will be able to launch programs and begin using the computer before this, where as with Vista, the system is almost completely unusable until everything has calmed down.

Also, the Superfetch service in Win7 is less manic than in Vista, so it might take longer to fill up the cache after a clean boot. But, it won't thrash the hard drive as violently as Vista did, again causing less interference with the programs you actually use at the moment.

 

[matt87_50]

don't know what they are talking about. as soon as I see my desktop I can start doing things(open the net, or start browsing my computer).

 

[Tamz_msc]

The only reason I will upgrade to windows 7 is because of DirectX 11 and i will still keep windows xp since on my pc xp shows the decktop in about 40 secs in spite of running kis 2010 on a 1.86 ghz core 2 duo , 1gb ram and geforce 8400 gs

 

[Tamz_msc]

[citation][nom]Tamz_msc[/nom]The only reason I will upgrade to windows 7 is because of DirectX 11 and i will still keep windows xp since on my pc xp shows the desktop in about 40 secs in spite of running kis 2010 on a 1.86 ghz core 2 duo , 1gb ram and geforce 8400 gs[/citation]

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

this is pretty depressing actually

yes, it is. We have a beautiful new operating system which is much better and has many improvements over its predecessor, and then we still are trying to find flaws. Boot, time, does it really matter that it boots faster? It's funny actually, it's new software, so you would expect it to be heavier, more demanding. Instead it's actually overall much faster, yet we get depressed at the thought that there is one task that takes longer.

Stop complaining people, you should be happy.

 

[hixbot]

7 boots 10 seconds faster than vista on my 6 year old P4.

 

[tipoo]

Hmm, a study from a PC tune up software maker saying Win7 needs PC tune up software? Whats next, Norton saying Win7 still needs antivirus?

 

[mlauzon76]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Buy one?[/citation]

I have DX11 on my Vista x64, only because MS released a small registry app that would enable some beta stuff to be shown in Windows Update that they backported to Vista.

 

[sahil]

cool story bro.

 

[sahil]

why is this news? really? who cares? please tell me. my macbook boots faster then my windows 7 which has core i7 and windows 7 x64 installed on it. WHO CARES?

 

[gamerjames]

Even if Windows 7 isn't proven by benchmarks to be the fastest, bestest version

Is there a joke I am missing?