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Windows 10 Boot times ?

AndyPix
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Hi all, after reading many different users experiences regarding windows 10 I find myself wondering how different machines vary as the vast majority of my real world experience is in a corporate environment.


I'm interested to see how boot times vary .. Ill start




Machine spec : OptiPlex 9020m, core I7, 8GB, 128SSD, W10Pro
Boot time from cold start to workable desktop is 23 seconds (including the time to type my password)
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  • RobTang
    RobTang Posts: 1,064 Forumite
    TBH I haven't really cared about start up times once they were under a minute


    i7 Surface Book is 12 seconds. (Windows hello login)
    i7 6700hq laptop 15 seconds.
    i7 3770k desktop 33 seconds.
    (all have SSDs of various configs, restarted after a shutdown)


    The thing is its really dependant on what hardware and software you need to initialise, the desktop is slow because I never bothered to optimise the boot and it has things like the raid arrays it needs to spin up.

    Windows 7/8/10 has never been slow to start-up its all the things the user has installed that makes it slow.
    So comparing boot times is pretty irrelevant because everyone has a unique bundle of stuff they are running
  • spud17
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    edited 10 January 2017 at 9:43PM
    I just look at Task Manager for comparisons. In reality it's around 23 seconds.




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  • boliston
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    RobTang wrote: »
    TBH I haven't really cared about start up times once they were under a minute.....

    15 seconds I can live with (I have a 3 year old pc without ssd) but anything more would get annoying fast
  • Jivesinger
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    It might be useful to know which times are with Fast Startup and which are without?
  • GunJack
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    boliston wrote: »
    15 seconds I can live with (I have a 3 year old pc without ssd) but anything more would get annoying fast

    you haven't been using IT for long, how would you have coped on an x286 running Win95 ?? :rotfl:
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  • indesisiv
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    About 10 secs, including putting in the password.
    Its an old dell latitude something or other. I have had that laptop about 6yrs or so. The SSD which I put in is the thing that speeds the startup, the rest of the hardware is how it was when I got it.
    “Time is intended to be spent, not saved” - Alfred Wainwright
  • DoaM
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    If I ignore the 5 sec delay for the boot menu (I have a Linux Mint installation also on the machine, so a boot menu to allow me to select it - Windows 10 is the default) ... probably about 45 seconds - 20 secs to the login screen, then 25 secs until everything has finished loading.

    This is a laptop with i7 2nd gen CPU, 8GB RAM and a "normal" HDD. It was upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10 (then Anniversary edition) but has never been wiped and reinstalled at Win 10.
  • Sicard
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    Last BIOS time 3.3 seconds. SSD, 8gb ram. HP Envy.

    It's like a little drag racer.
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  • 50Twuncle
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    GunJack wrote: »
    you haven't been using IT for long, how would you have coped on an x286 running Win95 ?? :rotfl:
    Have you tried an i7 running DOS 5 ?
    It boots up almost like a light switch......
  • GunJack
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    50Twuncle wrote: »
    Have you tried an i7 running DOS 5 ?
    It boots up almost like a light switch......


    ..err.....no, why on earth would I :rotfl:
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