The Windows 7 11-Second Boot and the Computer That Made It Possible
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversWindows 7’s evolution compared to Windows Vista is undeniable, and the lucky few that so far have had access to the RTM bits of the latest Windows client can confirm this.
But fact of the matter is that even in Beta Build 7000 development stage, Windows 7 bested Vista, and the boot time performance drag race is an illustrative example in this regard. However, Windows 7 startup speeds manage to leave its precursor in the dust. Some of you might remember reading about the 11-second boot Windows 7 delivered in a demonstration courtesy of Ruston Panabaker, Microsoft's principal program manager of strategic silicon partnering. (via PCMag and Beyond Binary)
Yes, Windows 7 booting in just 11 seconds. My first question was, what kind of computer was Panabaker running, for obvious, and geeky, reasons. So I went ahead, and shot an email to Microsoft asking for details about the hardware configuration of the 11-second Windows 7 boot machine. Here is the answer a company spokesperson provided me: “This was ran on a Quad-core 1.7 GHz Nehalem [Core i7] processor on a Calpella chipset, 2GB of memory, 80 GB Intel X25-M SSD (1st gen). In the set up, the log-in screen was turned off in the user control panel.”
However, the Microsoft representative noted that the 11-second boot represented just the startup time for Windows 7. “Note: BIOS post is in addition to this,” the company spokesperson added. My second question was what kind of optimizations went into making this kind of performance possible. The way I figured it, if I have the hardware configuration, and know about the tweaks, maybe I can do it myself. But guess what?
Yes, it’s all Windows 7, and nothing but Windows 7. “Nothing else special was done to create the 11 second boot time for Windows to the desktop,” the Microsoft spokesperson shared with me. As some of you might recall, Microsoft revealed early on in the development process of its latest Windows client the fact that it had revamped the way that the platform dealt with services. In Vista and previous releases of Windows, every service that is scheduled to start during operating system startup adds precious time to the overall experience.
In Windows 7 this is no longer the case. Vista’s successor features a mechanism that only starts services on demand. Essentially, Windows 7 contains the Trigger Start Services feature and delivers the evolution of the service control manager (SCM), reducing the number of services using Automatic Start, and taking a load off RAM and I/O.
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Comments(13)
yup, my win7 with 8gb ram, 1tb hdd, ahci drivers start up in 15 sec (many tweak i made)
the key point in that setup, in addition to win7, was the ssd, without that the hdd is
going to be the major bottleneck and slow down your boot time (in theory)unless you have
one of those insanely high rpm hdd, then you might not notice much of a difference.
win7 ultimate x86 on 2.6 ghz quad core system with 4 gb ddr iii 1800 mhz, 1.5 tb seagate
hdd with 32 mb buffer memory boot in only 8 seconds.
ya pretty much anyone with any know-how of downloading...
rapidly allowing to "plb433" to put his sick minded antiislamic opinion on
"9down.com" pages simply means that this site has same opinin and that this url is
fasists site
win98 boot in 10 sec. so, everybody must downgrade to win98.
use solid color for background and it takes longer to load
i am running the following at startup: kaspersky, idrive, rocketdock, ubericon, altdesk
and acronis trueimage and my startup time is 5 seconds. this is on an amd k-6 processor
with 784mb of ram. you are all full of shit. as soon as you install any apps, startup goes
down.
desert: 784mb of ram? we're talking about booting windows 7, not dos... :)
i leave my computer(s) on all the time, so who cares about boot load time. even if my os
took 60 secs to boot, who cares, i'd go grab a beer while it was booting. funny stuff
here!
dz - islam has no place in western countries. keep it in the middle east if you want but
don't bring it to our countries. i speak for the majority.
i was joking since e1 seems to be boasting about how fast their pcs boot.
uguys talk boot as if it from a certain point
its from turning on system cold
start. then its like 30 secs even with tweaks.
amiga 1000 3 secs true startup time
with 3 thing running at once true real-time. 30 year old system. you shouldnt have to
tweak.
i have the i7 extreme -i know the facts
still the reason u can claim
anything nera this is becasue intel owns true chis and os of amiga- hence
itanium=ps3=amiga= signed an nda on these facts.
intel said thy would put parts of
the itanium in each and every cpu witht eh duo on up. -this is why its much better.
which im glad of course -jsut wait till u get to the final crossover -dreams will be true.
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By Kaz on 19.09.2009 - 00:09