RESTART time - measured

[notaguru]

Core Duo @ 1.83GHz, 2GB RAM, Vista Home Premium

BEGINNING and ENDING state:
Desktop, no apps running, four accessories in tray including
Avast!, "free" cursor with no hourglass

Five trials, all within 2-3 seconds of 2:05. Desktop and tray
appear at 1:32-34, but the cursor has an hourglass for another
half minute or so.

Is this about right? Is there any way I can improve this speed?

Thanks!

 

[notaguru]

Core Duo @ 1.83GHz, 2GB RAM, Vista Home Premium

BEGINNING and ENDING state:
Desktop, no apps running, four accessories in tray including Avast!,
"free" cursor with no hourglass

Five trials, all within 2-3 seconds of 2:05. Desktop and tray appear at
1:32-34, but the cursor has an hourglass for another half minute or so.

Is this about right? Is there any way I can improve this speed?

Thanks!

For the record --

With wireless and Bluetooth OFF, I gained about five seconds.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Core Duo @ 1.83GHz, 2GB RAM, Vista Home Premium

BEGINNING and ENDING state:
Desktop, no apps running, four accessories in tray including Avast!,
"free" cursor with no hourglass

Five trials, all within 2-3 seconds of 2:05. Desktop and tray appear at
1:32-34, but the cursor has an hourglass for another half minute or so.

Is this about right? Is there any way I can improve this speed?

Thanks!

Sounds about right. I haven't timed my restart time on any of my Vista
boxes, so that's just a SWAG. I hafta ask, though, why are you concerned
with improving restart start-to-finish speed? Do you restart many times a
day? If so, why?

Lang

 

[notaguru]

Sounds about right. I haven't timed my restart time on any of my Vista
boxes, so that's just a SWAG. I hafta ask, though, why are you concerned
with improving restart start-to-finish speed? Do you restart many times
a day? If so, why?

Lang

Sorry, I thought it was obvious. RESTART is a combination of
SHUTDOWN and POWER-ON. Historically I've used RESTART as a
benchmark when seeking to accelerate those two functions, which
are especially important on a laptop.

 

[Michael]

Those are similar time for me, in addition my system is sluggish until the
anti-virus sweep is complete which takes about 20 minutes (I can pause that
however).

With the improvements made in power handling in VISTA I would recommend that
you consider Hibernate when shutting down unplugged and Sleep with hybrid
sleep enabled when shutting down plugged in.

VISTA behaves much better than XP did in regard to long periods without a
hard restart.

Michael

 

[David]

Those are similar time for me, in addition my system is sluggish until
the anti-virus sweep is complete which takes about 20 minutes (I can
pause that however).

which antivirus? I use NIS2007 and it has no impact on either of the 2
Vista laptops it's installed on. However, on my XP machine, I recently
installed NIS2007, but had to remove it due to it interfering with
opening programs far too long after the PC is restarted, due to constant
HDD activity coming from NIS2007. weird how the same program reacts
differently on the 2 OS's, huh? I went back to Norton Corporate on the
XP machine, which allows me to start programs unimpeded after just a few
moments from bootup.

Dave

 

[Lang Murphy]

Sorry, I thought it was obvious. RESTART is a combination of SHUTDOWN and
POWER-ON. Historically I've used RESTART as a benchmark when seeking to
accelerate those two functions, which are especially important on a
laptop.

That is different, as far as I'm concerned. Mainly because when I shut down
a seat, I hit the shutdown button and walk away. I don't sit there watching
the seat shutdown. So, personally, shutdown could take 20 minutes and I
wouldn't care. Unless, of course, I wanted to start the seat up in that 20
minute window. Whatever...

So... the only metric that would interest me would be the power on time.
And, honestly... speeding up the power on time by 5 seconds, or even 30
seconds, hardly seems worth the effort involved to achieve that improvement.
But that's just my personal opinion and is not meant as an indictment of
those who -do- strive to achieve power on time improvement.

All that said... good luck with your quest.

Lang

 

[Guest]

That is different, as far as I'm concerned. Mainly because when I shut
down a seat, I hit the shutdown button and walk away. I don't sit there
watching the seat shutdown. So, personally, shutdown could take 20 minutes
and I wouldn't care. Unless, of course, I wanted to start the seat up in
that 20 minute window. Whatever...

So... the only metric that would interest me would be the power on time.
And, honestly... speeding up the power on time by 5 seconds, or even 30
seconds, hardly seems worth the effort involved to achieve that
improvement. But that's just my personal opinion and is not meant as an
indictment of those who -do- strive to achieve power on time improvement.

Agreed. My old '98 on a P2 restarted slow enough I could hit the restroom,
refill my coffee cup, and still wait for it. Either it takes me much too
much longer to get there and back, or Vista restarts too fast. ;-)

 

[Lang Murphy]

Agreed. My old '98 on a P2 restarted slow enough I could hit the restroom,
refill my coffee cup, and still wait for it. Either it takes me much too
much longer to get there and back, or Vista restarts too fast. ;-)

Ha! Funny... maybe a bit of both? ;-)

Lang