60 Sec Boot Time Normal??

[Pedro Sanchez]

I have amd venice 3200+ 64 bit cpu.
I timed it and it takes 60 seconds, from beep at bios to all things
loaded from msconfig/registry etc.

Older/previous computers I owned took 20-30 seconds.

So, is 60 seconds a reasonable amount of time?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have amd venice 3200+ 64 bit cpu.
I timed it and it takes 60 seconds, from beep at bios to all things
loaded from msconfig/registry etc.

Older/previous computers I owned took 20-30 seconds.

So, is 60 seconds a reasonable amount of time?

People seem to become obsessed with startup times - when they are having no
other issues. Are you haveing other performance issues?

You may have more loading up on this computer at startup than your other
PCs.

In any case - you could look through your startups (services, startups in
the registry/startup folder/etc) and lessen those as well as tweak other
thigs, verify you have the latest drivers and updates, etc.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

You should be pleased. Microsoft's goal for 'from power on to the Welcome
screen' was 30 seconds (I get there in 34 seconds); the remainder of the
time is used by the balance of the software components you choose to load
with Windows. Everyone needs to have antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall
programs starting with Windows - at the very least - and all that software
needs time to load.

 

[Stan Blazejewski]

Not so long ago I was getting about 2 min bootup times (according to Bootvis) &
I found that the setting for prefetch was wrong, god knows what changed it.
After some research I found the following.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory
Management\PrefetchParameters EnablePrefetcher
(above line may be linewraped)

Seems the correct value for the EnablePrefetcher key should be '3' acceptable
values being .....
0 - no prefetch
1 - prefetch apps only
2 - prefetch boot only
3 - prefetch all

My system now boots up in 23 seconds (according to Bootviz).

Hope it works for you.

You should be pleased. Microsoft's goal for 'from power on to the Welcome
screen' was 30 seconds (I get there in 34 seconds); the remainder of the
time is used by the balance of the software components you choose to load
with Windows. Everyone needs to have antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall
programs starting with Windows - at the very least - and all that software
needs time to load.

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