Company Claims Windows 7's Boot Times are worse than Vista's Boot Times

Red Panda Oct 8, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Applications, Microsoft, News

A company named ioIo technologies ran a test on Window 7's boot times. They found that on a fresh machine, Windows 7 boots up a minute and 34 seconds, versus Vista's minute and 6 seconds. Then they let the computer run for about three months before testing again. They found that the computer boots up in 2 minutes and 34 seconds. Naturally I wanted to try this, as I have Windows 7 Ultimate RC on my laptop, which is a Dell Inspiron 1520 with a Core 2 Duo T7500, 2GB of RAM, and a 5400RPM drive, and the OS was installed as an upgrade on top of Vista. I also installed this roughly two months ago.

Final boot time, which is from pressing the on button to waiting for the CPU and HDD to stop working on the desktop? 1 minute 17 seconds. Hm.

To hurt ioIo's credibility even more:

• They didn't say what the machine was
• What else the machine had installed (programs, etc.)
• What they were doing with the machine for those three months
• The piece de resistance: They're a company that sells software for tuning up PCs.

So much for them getting me to buy their software!