I’m experimenting with an online database collection service and thought it would be interesting to put forth a practical question; How fast does your computer boot up? To measure the boot-up time of your computer, time it from the moment you turn the computer on until the desktop and all background applications are fully loaded (i.e. no hourglass present and no hard drive activity present). Click the title of this article above or the read more below to get to the form.
Use the form below to answer at least the first two questions, then click submit. I will keep this survey up for a few weeks and then compile some results. Share this survey with all your computer friends and families so we can build a large database. The larger the database, the more meaningful the results will be.
Thanks!
The first results are already making their way in, thanks, but please be diligent about your times. One result already in said they had a Windows Vista desktop with 256mb of RAM and it booted in 1-1.5 minutes. I’m calling big time B.S. on that time. Please read the instructions before filling in the survey. To properly time a boot-up start your stopwatch the second you hit the power button, then don’t shut off the stopwatch until there are no more hour glasses and no hard drive activity (indicated by the blinking LED on your computer). Also, ONLY answer the questions in the poll that you are sure of, please.
Please participate and get your friends and family to do so as well. Here are the results through the first two years:
You should have added an option for whether they have a normal HDD or an SSD.
you can find a more accurate boot time if you go to command prompt, type in “SYSTEMINFO” (without the quotation marks) and then scroll down until you find “boot time”
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