Windows 7 Boot Time

Posted on Sep 3, 08 09:39 AM PDT

Anyone who uses Windows knows that the longer the operating system is kept without a fresh re-install (or deep clean-up), the longer it takes to boot up. Hopefully this will change with news that Microsoft is currently working on a solution to make Windows 7 boot much faster. In fact, the main objective would be to see Windows 7 hit a cold boot time of 15 seconds or below, which will be more than welcome considering data from the Customer Experience Improvement Program depicting 35% of Windows Vista SP1 systems booting in less than half a minute, while 75% boots in under 50 seconds. These numbers are better than what I would expect. I wonder what their definition of “boot” is and when they start/stop measuring the time here.

Note that we’re talking of “clean system” boot time here. For exemple, on a fast computer, Vista can boot as fast as 30 seconds (to the login scren) after the install. But once a bunch of other applications have been installed, the boot time will drag on to 1mn or much more. 

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