System boot time Vista vs. XP

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Angel Massa

I've checked the boot time to compare how fast is Vista compared to XP. I
know that this time change depending of the software installed and many
other things. But I only wanted a simple comparison of the two systems on
the same hardware.

I have my previous XP partition with all my software and information on one
drive and I've added a second drive to intall and test Vista. Vista only has
Office 2007 beta 2 installed and XP has much more software installed.

I've counted the time from clicking on the boot menu OS choice to the login
screen.

Windows XP: 25 seconds.
Windows Vista: 1 minute 5 seconds.

I thinks this is extremelly slow for a clean system and same hardware
configuration.

What's your experience with boot time with Vista?

Regards,
Angel.
 
I have my vista installation on a different drive too and it's actually
quicker than Xp
my xp boots in about 40 seconds and vista in around 30 or so and I have
pretty much the same progs on each
 
Angel Massa said:
I've counted the time from clicking on the boot menu OS choice to the login screen.
Windows XP: 25 seconds.
Windows Vista: 1 minute 5 seconds.
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I have a PC with overall rating = 1
Windows XP with all programs: < 10 seconds
Windows Vista without programs: < 30 seconds
 
It is not a fair comparison yet. Vista code has not been optimized (cannot
be until bugfixing is finished).
 
I know it's not fair and that boot times depends of many factors. But I only
wanted to know about other users and a rough comparison with XP.

Regards,
Angel.
 
I've counted the time from clicking on the boot menu OS choice to the login
screen.

Windows XP: 25 seconds.
Windows Vista: 1 minute 5 seconds.

I thinks this is extremelly slow for a clean system and same hardware
configuration.

What's your experience with boot time with Vista?
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Once again for the numpties...

ITS A BETA. THE CODE IS NOT OPTIMISED. THE DRIVERS ARE IMMATURE.
 
I know it's not fair and that boot times depends of many factors. But I only
wanted to know about other users and a rough comparison with XP.
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But it is completely pointless comparing it to XP.
 
Comparing them I can make a rough idea of what will be the boot time.

I don't espect that if Vista now takes one minute to boot after optimization
it jumps to 10 seconds to boot. Provably it will boot faster but not that
much.

Regards,
Angel.
 
No, you cannot yet tell what the boot time for Vista will be. Much of the
code optimization goes to this very thing. Optimization cannot be done
while the code is being updated with bugfixes (it would just have to be done
over again). Optimization will make a big big difference in how efficiently
the code will run. Do not underestimate how much impact optimization will
have.

Optimization will take into account hardware released since XP went final in
2001 so the comparison will be unfavorable to XP. The only fair comparison
would be if both XP and Vista were optimized for 2006 hardware, but only
Vista will be.

Angel Massa said:
Comparing them I can make a rough idea of what will be the boot time.

I don't espect that if Vista now takes one minute to boot after
optimization it jumps to 10 seconds to boot. Provably it will boot faster
but not that much.

Regards,
Angel.
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I get the point. Then this are good news for all.

If we hope to see big improvement on boot time and general performance when
Vista get final then it will be a great OS. I like the GUI and all the new
features but by now I find it too much hardware dependent and slower than
XP.

Regards,
Angel.
 
If you have an older computer the boot times may be about the same. Vista
will appear to boot faster at first but as you add programs may slow a bit.
If you have a newer computer then Vista will most likely boot noticeably
faster than XP and continue to over time.
 
my system:
Windows XP Pro: 1 minute 10 seconds (12 second resume from hibernation)
Windows Vista Ult: 23 seconds (10 second from hibernation)

both have office 2007, and not much else. I imagine Vista would improve
somewhat with a hybrid hard drive, but it's already an improvement over XP.
 
Angel Massa said:
I get the point. Then this are good news for all.

If we hope to see big improvement on boot time and general performance
when Vista get final then it will be a great OS. I like the GUI and all
the new features but by now I find it too much hardware dependent and
slower than XP.
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Totaly agree... Yet their is always the question, can MS really optimize
Vista Beta 2 that much?
They have been working day and night on this thing for 5 years now? what
will 3 or 4 extra month do
when then have to focus on bug fixes and not optimization???

I'm not that optimistic...

Stephan
 
Try a clean XP build VS a Clean Vista Build.

Vista on this system is ~3 time slower.

I can even say that it take Vista clean install longer to shutdown then it
take XP to
boot from the bios screen on the same machine

The Vista team got alot, ALOT of work on their hands to fix this before
shipping.

Stephan
 
It was the same with Whistler. Don't worry (unless of course you happen to
be one of the ones to have to do it). :)
 
I know it's not fair and that boot times depends of many factors. But I only
wanted to know about other users and a rough comparison with XP.

Regards,
Angel.
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Actually Vista tewlls me that two device drivers are slowing down the
boot on my machine (Takes about 1 min 20 sec.)

The interesting thing about it is that both of those drivers are MS
supplied drivers and items.
 
Try a clean XP build VS a Clean Vista Build.

Vista on this system is ~3 time slower.

I can even say that it take Vista clean install longer to shutdown then it
take XP to
boot from the bios screen on the same machine

The Vista team got alot, ALOT of work on their hands to fix this before
shipping.

Stephan
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Actually Vista will tell you what is causing a long boot time. Most
of the time it is the initialization of drivers causing a problem.

On my system it points to 2 items, both of which are MS items BTW.
 
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