Study: Windows 7 doesn't boot faster than Vista

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Iolo Technlogies, which sells PC tune-up software, said its lab unit found that a brand-new machine running Windows 7 takes a minute and 34 seconds to become usable, as compared to a minute and 6 seconds for Windows Vista. Iolo notes that it measured not the time it takes for the desktop to appear--which can be as little as 40 seconds on a fresh installation of Windows 7--but rather the time it takes to become fully usable "with CPU cycles no longer significantly high and a true idle state achieved."

The results are also fairly similar to what CNET found in its testing of the operating system

Study: Windows 7 doesn't boot faster | Beyond Binary - CNET News
 
some companies have a lot of spare time on their hands :P

what difference does it make whether it takes a minute or two to boot up.
 
Says "Iolo Technlogies" who might be scared of the fact they people might not use their "PC tune-up software" for Windows 7 which is already fine-tuned to a great extent.
 
Coming from the days of DOS where a 386 m/c would boot in 15 seconds, I personally would love an OS that boots up in seconds :D.

I guess folks today haven't experienced an OS that boots that quickly. Seems like Microsoft has done a good job for so long in making people so used to waiting for their computers to boot that now, people think it's an honour if there computer boots up in less than a minute :P.

One place where boot up time would matter is when there are constant crashes or if a restart is required....another couple of things that Microsoft has made us accustomed to ;).

Sigh...but I know Windows...and everyone around me does too. I'm not willing to change :ashamed:.
 
I dont care what study says.I can feel the difference while booting up 7 does boot up way faster than Vista.
 
its lab unit found that a brand-new machine running Windows 7 takes a minute and 34 seconds to become usable, as compared to a minute and 6 seconds for Windows Vista
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Might be the case for a "brand new machine". After a couple of weeks, vista starts to show its colors.
 
zhopudey said:
Might be the case for a "brand new machine". After a couple of weeks, vista starts to show its colors.
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The M$ proprietary Red, Green, Yellow & Blue ? :P
So, has the Windows 7 bubble gone bust already?
 
After 6 months Windows 7 is the same bullcrap, system gets slow, Boot-up and shutdown times shoot up. System doesn't shutdown half the time.

Ill give them full points on OOBE, but thats it.

Compare all this to my Leopard install and the Windows 7 facde quickly comes off.
 
Wow, putting two machines side by side installing 2 OS and making them boot= A study..lol

Here i was thinking this might be something informative :@
 
If you want faster boot up times for long period, disable prefetch and indexing.

But then again, you loose the benefits of these as well.
 
Iolo notes that it measured not the time it takes for the desktop to appear--which can be as little as 40 seconds on a fresh installation of Windows 7--but rather the time it takes to become fully usable "with CPU cycles no longer significantly high and a true idle state achieved."
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Ummm, this is precisely where I find the most improvement in Windows 7. Almost as soon as the desktop is visible, system is idle and I cant start doing whatever I want.

In Vista, it used to take a lot longer for the CPU system to become idle after desktop is shown.

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Says "Iolo Technlogies" who might be scared of the fact they people might not use their "PC tune-up software" for Windows 7 which is already fine-tuned to a great extent.
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Haha, spot on! :P
 
TBH I don't care if either of them take more boot time. I am more concerned about the response time when I am in the Windows. Windows 7 is a little better I'd say. But again no grudges against VISTA. That was also a grt OS.
 
Well, in my personal opinion, Vista took longer time to boot than WIndows 7 now takes. Seven is much stable, better and with very little glitches, in what I have used over the past 7 to 8 months. Seven was so good even in the beta stages that I promptly formatted Vista out of my PC within one month of the beta release.
 
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