…out of hell - apparently!

The target time for booting is under 15 seconds for a ‘very good system’! Tests on machines running Vista have shown a third of the machines starting up in 30 seconds or less (you only need 64Gb RAM!).

Michael Fortin, Lead Microsoft engineer said: “From our perspective, too few systems consistently boot fast enough and we have to do much better…” Really?? I’ll let him continue “…Obviously, the systems that are greater than 60 seconds have something we need to dramatically improve – whether these are devices, networking or software issues… there are also some system maintenance tasks that can contribute to long boottimes.”

The bottom line here is that clean installs produce the fastest boot times, end of.

The problems apparently come from device and driver installation but Windows 7 will try to increase the number of drivers initialised in parallel meaning a faster boot - theoretically.

Finally, the pointy finger is levelled at the user; you and me. Having too many applications running at startup and scripts running will definitely slow your boot time - now you can tell you IT support department that it really is their scripts that make Windows slow; Microsoft said so!

There you have it. Windows 7 will be faster and better than the previous version so put your rose tinted glasses back and starting humming a little ditty.

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