Preview: Windows 8 fast boot time

[clayton]

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2...windows-8.aspx

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. If you’re not familiar with hibernation, we’re effectively saving the system state and memory contents to a file on disk (hiberfil.sys) and then reading that back in on resume and restoring contents back to memory. Using this technique with boot gives us a significant advantage for boot times, since reading the hiberfile in and reinitializing drivers is much faster on most systems (30-70% faster on most systems we’ve tested).

You have to watch the video as well.

[StyM]

yeah sooooo fast, considering there's a video cut on 00:34 sec..

[Particle]

yeah sooooo fast, considering there's a video cut on 00:34 sec..

...which was after the thing finished booting already.

[Manicdan]

the chart shows no boot time less than 15 seconds, but the movie made it look like 5 seconds, lol

i do hope the new hibernate file is much more dynamic and smart, i never did like wasting a few GBs of my SSD, so i left it off

also the first pie charts show that 42% of the population waste money by not shutting off their PCs. and the reason we can do such a thing with phones is because in their idle state they us a few milli-watts, so low its registered as 0 until we start tracking a dozen phones on the same killawatt meter, lol.

[aintz]

yeah sooooo fast, considering there's a video cut on 00:34 sec..

considering some laptops already boot windows 7 under 15s, i dont see why this is so unbelievable for you.

[Dainas]

considering some laptops already boot windows 7 under 15s, i dont see why this is so unbelievable for you.

Yet on super fast desktops with SSD it takes that long at the splash screen alone with absolutely nothing going on. I fricken hate windows 7, what an overrated turd of an OS.

[Dimitriman]

Neverending startup times and Blue Screen of Death are two of the biggest trademark horrors created by M$... I sure would be glad at least one of them would die.

[Lanek]

Seriously, my bios take more times for boot of windows itself ( thanks to raid AHCI ).. i don't even see the "loading" splash screen... the only thing, i need wait the windows animated logo have finish (3 sec ), and then im on the desktop, ready to work. but if i disable it, it take even less time.... ( its allready so short, i have finally re activate this animation.. im not at 1 second less )...

Now for peoples with "standard HDD". It is really time MS work on this boot time ...

[aintz]

Neverending startup times and Blue Screen of Death are two of the biggest trademark horrors created by M$... I sure would be glad at least one of them would die.

does anyone even bsod when they are not ocing? i know i havnt bsoded once in windows 7 on 2 different desktops and 3 laptops....

and im my crappy acer 3830tg laptop with a intel g2 80gb ssd boots in 25s i dont think thats bad at all...

quit hating on windows

[BeepBeep2]

does anyone even bsod when they are not ocing? i know i havnt bsoded once in windows 7 on 2 different desktops and 3 laptops....

and im my crappy acer 3830tg laptop with a intel g2 80gb ssd boots in 25s i dont think thats bad at all...

quit hating on windows

quit hating on windows? People can do what they want.

My linux box (just an experiment) boots off a Patriot Xporter XT 16GB, ATI Rage Fury Pro and Athlon MP 1600+ in that box...boot time is faster than my RAID 0 configuration with Win Vista and two WD Caviar Black.

[InCredible]

my w7 boot up is pretty quick with 2 g2's in raid0 but waiting for my mobo to "check" everything then post/raid config takes 10x longer then the ~15 sec windows startup(9-11 on fresh os)

[bing]

15 sec is fast ??? Meh .. wait till you see this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUD_NZFFb64

[zanzabar]

EUFI hibernate using nand is amazing isnt it, i dont see what this shows.

also i remember when i got a raptor and was on windows 98se, it booted instantly, it posted, flashed and then on the desktop so i dont see how using hybernate with SLC and intels on board nand speed up tool on a clean instal shows anything or even a basic ssc would boot quickly on a fresh instal in a few seconds.

[[XC] hipno650]

as long as I can still fully "restart" my system I will be happy. I never use hibernate as it seems to cause more problems than it's worth so I hate the idea of being "forced" into it. Most of the time I restart my system it is because I want to fix an error by forcing the program to boot again, you can't do that with a hibernate image.

cool idea MS but im far from sold.

[PatRaceTin]

when will Win8 launch

[XSAlliN]

Windows 8 - get it now, boot fast - frag faster.

[Rubycon]

I don't understand this obsession with boot speed at all.
Make the OS stable and not requiring all these restarts after updates and boot time becomes irrelevant.

[Mechanical Man]

I don't understand this obsession with boot speed at all.
Make the OS stable and not requiring all these restarts after updates and boot time becomes irrelevant.

I like shutting off my main pc when I dont need it. Thats some 16-24h per day...

I like it boot fast tough. With ssd my windows 7 boot is fast, never did take time tough.

[The Coolest]

You can always put your PC into sleep mode, only drawing a few watts of power and it takes only seconds for it to snap out of it when needed.
I too restart only once a month or so, or after some important update, which is very annoying.

[flopper]

using sleep mode, less than 10s to desktop for me.

[Loque]

gee.. booting time on a OS is the least of my concerns..

[RPGWiZaRD]

gee.. booting time on a OS is the least of my concerns..

+1, I barely restart/shut off my comp, after application installs mostly.

[dinos22]

windows has much bigger problems than booting time, fix the bloody inconsistencies with the damn os, who gives a about booting times

[ryan92084]

People still turn off computers around here? We need more WCG crunchers

[osiris999]

I could careless if windows took 54 min to boot. Use sleep mode and forget about boot times