Whats you're Windows 7 reboot time?

Wiggins · 26 Apr 2009 at 13:51

I thought this might be a bit of fun. Taken from another forum, for those who have now installed Windows 7, what is your restart time? As Fire Wizard has mentioned, maybe give the times for both Vista and Windows 7 if dual booting.

1 - Click here to download the Restart-Time.vbs file to your desktop.

2 - Right click on the Restart-Time.vbs file, and click on Properties.

3 - Under the General tab, click on the Unblock button to unblock the Restart-Time.vbs file. (Please note, this is a safe file to execute)
NOTE: If you do not have a Unblock button, then it is already unblocked. Continue to step 4.

4 - Click on the Restart-Time.vbs file to run it.

5 - Click on OK to restart the computer. (See screenshot below)
WARNING: Close and save all windows first. This will immediately restart your computer.

When the computer finishes restarting, you will see your Windows 7 restart time. Click on OK when done. (See screenshot below)

The above image is my reboot time.

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Gigabyte EP35-DS3R
4Gb XMS2 Memory (850mhz)
500Gb Samsung Spinpoint F1
Windows 7 RC1 (Build 7100)

Have fun.

Fire Wizard · 26 Apr 2009 at 14:02

It will also be worth doing with Windows Vista as well. If people are dual booting, we can the sort of difference in boot times between Windows Vista and Windows 7.

It may also be worth listing your computer specifications too.

baz047 · 26 Apr 2009 at 14:06

That file is indeed virus free, BitDefender says so.

Also my restart time is 68 seconds. Which is a core 2 duo laptop at 1.8 Ghz. " gig of RAM and a 7200 rpm hard-drive.

Pretty respectible I think.

Wiggins · 26 Apr 2009 at 14:10

Fire Wizard said:
It will also be worth doing with Windows Vista as well. If people are dual booting, we can the sort of difference in boot times between Windows Vista and Windows 7.

It may also be worth listing your computer specifications too.

Good idea.

LizardKing · 26 Apr 2009 at 16:37

Mines 65 seconds
AMD X2 6000
4gb DDR2 800
Seagate10 ATA HD

Spektor · 26 Apr 2009 at 17:03

Just to throw a Vista time in, 66 seconds on Premium 64bit E6600 / 4GB / ye olde Seagate 7200.10 drive and an install from Vista's release week -- so not so impressed with these W7 boot times, someone with an SSD do it!

. Not going to try Windows 7 myself until the upcoming build on the 5th, so will redo it then.

indyskyz · 26 Apr 2009 at 17:08

86 seconds E5200 @ 2.5 4gb ddr2 W7 64 vrry old slow hdd through

closed msn and shut down a few background apps, imon, curse, fraps, powerISO. And got it to 77 seconds

Ease · 26 Apr 2009 at 17:21

89 seconds

Q6600 @ 2.9GHz
4GB DDR3 1600MHz
Ancient Maxtor hard drive...

I want to move my Windows 7 to another hard drive, anyone know a free partition manager that works in 64-bit Windows 7? The only ones I can find only work on my XP.

Edward01 · 26 Apr 2009 at 17:43

Just for comparison:

XP SP3

55 Seconds

Single Core 939 3700+
1gb sdram
2 x old samsung 200gb HDD in Raid 0 (run about as fast as my new f1 1tb sammy)

Quick huh

Will do win 7 on my lappy when it's finished encoding.

uv · 26 Apr 2009 at 18:07

67 seconds.. My 36GB raptor is showing it's age :/

Nick1881 · 26 Apr 2009 at 18:41

I was going to try it with Vista on SSD's but I cant run the file even after unblocking it, it asks what application to use.

Spektor · 26 Apr 2009 at 20:15

make sure it has the right extention (.vbs)

Nick1881 · 26 Apr 2009 at 20:38

It was google chromes fault lol.

A miserable 86 seconds

Vista x64 Ultimate on 2 x 64Gb SSD's only installed a few weeks ago.

BigAl · 26 Apr 2009 at 20:47

56 secs for me. Thought it might be faster

2xOCZ 60GB Vertex RAID0

Greenlizard0 · 26 Apr 2009 at 21:00

101 seconds. Though in all fairness, Kaspersky blocked it initially so around 81 seconds. Windows Vista 64.

xb8browney · 26 Apr 2009 at 21:08

73Seconds Windows 7 7100

xb8browney · 26 Apr 2009 at 21:09

Ease said:
89 seconds

Q6600 @ 2.9GHz
4GB DDR3 1600MHz
Ancient Maxtor hard drive...

I want to move my Windows 7 to another hard drive, anyone know a free partition manager that works in 64-bit Windows 7? The only ones I can find only work on my XP.

What about the in built one?

Ease · 28 Apr 2009 at 20:05

Alright, it took me all day to move over to the new drive... none of the partition managers helped, I've had to make a fresh install, and as I become certain I've moved everything from the old drive I'll then format that partition to become storage.

DDave · 28 Apr 2009 at 20:25

56 seconds with Vista SP1. I had to type my password to login as well, but don't know if this is taken into account?. Some of these Windows 7 boot times seem really slow though.

Ease · 28 Apr 2009 at 21:27

I'm now down to 73 seconds, minus a few seconds to "allow" the VB script.