Windows 8 Boots in 8 Seconds

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Source : Windows 8 Boots in 8 Seconds - Softpedia

How’s this for fast? Windows 8 boots in as little as 8 seconds due to a new fast startup mode that Microsoft introduced and first demoed today. Check out the video embedded below for the demonstration of Windows 8’s amazing start-up time. Any faster and it would be instantaneous.

And in case you were wondering, that’s 8 seconds from the moment the user hits the power button on a device that’s been completely turned off.

Windows 8 boot on steroids is the result of start-up optimizations which involve “upgrading†cold start-up with additional features of a power-saving state designed to put some components of the OS on the hard drive.

“Our solution is a new fast startup mode which is a hybrid of traditional cold boot and resuming from hibernate,†revealed Gabe Aul, a director of program management in Windows.

This means that when customers will shut down Windows 8 machines, the operating system won’t close all user sessions as well as the services and devices in the kernel session.

“Now here’s the key difference for Windows 8: as in Windows 7, we close the user sessions, but instead of closing the kernel session, we hibernate it. Compared to a full hibernate, which includes a lot of memory pages in use by apps, session 0 hibernation data is much smaller, which takes substantially less time to write to disk,†Aul added.

With Windows 7, the software giant overhauled the way that the platform was handling drivers, and boot times improved significantly.

Of course, not to the impressive level of Windows 8 boot performance, but still. I should stress that the Redmond company has once again revamped the mechanism that allows the operating system to load drivers for Windows 8.

“Another important thing to note about Windows 8’s fast startup mode is that, while we don’t do a full “Plug & Play†enumeration of all drivers, we still do initialize drivers in this mode,†Aul explained.

“Those of you who like to cold boot in order to “freshen up†drivers and devices will be glad to know that is still effective in this new mode, even if not an identical process to a cold boot.â€

Back in June 2011, I wrote an article noting that Windows 8 could deliver boot times of as little as 5 or 6 seconds, if the right hardware configuration is there.

It appears I was right on the money, and I still believe that Windows 8 systems could boot in 6 seconds or less on machines equipped with SSDs and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

“This new fast startup mode will yield benefits on almost all systems, whether they have a spinning HDD or a solid state drive (SSD), but for newer systems with fast SSDs it is downright amazing. Check out the video below to see for yourself,†Aul said.

UPDATE: This is the computer used in the video: EliteBook 8640p (Intel Core i7-2620M, 8GB, 160GB SSD).
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challapradyumna said:
SSD's Boot up lot faster than HDD's Nothing new in it. Windows and fast boot up's - This isn't the land of Unicorns.
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True... But even after using SSD Windows 8 loads a lot faster as compared to Windows 7...
 
It irritates me to see such BS being claimed about boot times. If you get the hardware right, any OS with a 'Fresh install' will boot up instantaneously!!

I wonder if these posers could actually claim real life Boot times when you have all the gargabe you would never use installed on your PC and it refuses to boot up in 8 secs! Besides, even if it boots in 15 secs, or 8 secs, what are you going to do with the 7 sec difference? A fart would take longer than 7 secs or are you going to clean up your room in 7secs? So, it doesn't matter if you're loosing 7 secs of your precious 24hrs

PS: Please take the post above with the pun that is intended in it. :P Also, this is aimed at the source, not at the OP
 
i remember booting my P4 linux box in 8-9 secs , shutdown in 4 secs.

btw they forgot to mention that boot time will add 1 sec for everyday you use , so about 30 secs in a months time :P
 
viralbug said:
^ No offence, but if you fart for 7 seconds or more, you seriously have a bad stomach.
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Bwahahaha totally Agree with you on this...:rofl: and back to the topic, 8 seconds is great but still linux is faster.btw IMHO it will be a good thing. SSD+Win 8 w00t w00t..!! :D
 
GunsNRoses said:
That's a variable going upto infinity with no internet. Just sayin'.

BTW Windows 7 can boot in sub-10 seconds on decent SSDs.
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Actually, no. without net it boots in the same time, but then it does not have much functionality at all.

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challapradyumna said:
They probably hibernated the laptop to get that less boot time ...........or else it would atleast show windows logo for startup
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Duh.............please read from the beginning.
 
8 seconds is really great in Windows standard,,nice concept using semi hibernate mod to increase the booting up performance..don't bring linux or any other os here - it does not matter how good or bad it is in comparison to windows
 
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