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Since I already have 8 GB of RAM, I decided to do some benchmarking on my laptop's boot times, but first things first - I did a System Restore point creation just in case I turn off some essential service or the OEM apps that I must never disable...
I've also cleared the temporary files folders and also any Prefetch/ReadyBoost/ReadyBoot data. Then I let it reboot once. Predictably, the first boot is very slow due to no cached data being present. After the first boot is fully complete, I repeated the process around 5 times. With each successive reboot, the boots and shutdowns become progressively faster - the time to desktop cuts down nicely. After doing it five times, I give the computer a nice shutdown, waited for ten seconds after the power LED went off, and then I turned it on, with my feature phone's stopwatch app also being ran at the same time. I did it several times to give me a sense of proper timing, and including the POST time: Power on until POST finishes: 8.1 seconds Power on until "Starting Windows" disappears: 30.2 seconds Power on until desktop is loaded: 68 seconds Power on until the entire thing is loaded with no more disk I/O: 244 seconds Seems like I need to cut down the time between "desktop loaded" and "complete boot". Perhaps I should give Autoruns a look. I've also noticed that if I give the computer time to boot completely (4 minutes), no app thrashes. (By the way, how does that compare to your computer?) Anyway, perhaps I should put off getting an SSD for now, as I explore other options. Last edited by Twiggy; January 28, 2013 at 11:58:19 PM. |
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Let's see... Hmm, Autoruns is quite powerful, in that it can actually remove hooks from Winlogon.
I've disabled a lot of processes and, well, after five tries (of course, caches are busted first, and I've also made my laptop to use fast boot): Power on until POST finishes: 6.7 seconds Power on until "Starting Windows" disappears: 27.5 seconds Power on until desktop appears: 55.4 seconds Power on until boot completes: 92.4 seconds Is this much better? |