How Long to Boot Up

[dewey]

How long does it take your thinkpad to boot up. From pushing the "on button to using your first application".
I just read a poll that folks averaged from 30-90 seconds.
My A31 takes about 3 minutes and my A22 takes about 2 minutes. Not sure if these are long wait times...

Any thoughts

[jdhurst]

This is one of those "it depends" questions.

It depends on:
1. How fast your machine is.
2. How fast your hard drive is.
3. How many applications you load on start.
4. What your individual preferences are.

I start my machine once and use it for several hours (or a day) at a stretch. So I do not focus on startup times. I just don't care.

I have a fast machine (1.8GHz Dothan, 768Mb of ram, 7200-rpm hard drive), so it moves along at startup without getting stuck anywhere.

I load lots: Access Connections, Deskmenu, Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Firewall, Cache Sentry, FreeMem Pro, DU Meter, Netscreeen VPN, Power manager, EZ Eject, Wireless NIC, Wired NIC, TaskManager to name most of them. So it takes a while for everything to start.

I allot 4 minutes before trying to use anything.
... JD Hurst

[a31pguy]

Startup applications is someone of an art form (no - no pun intended). Antivirus software increases that time significantly. There are several tools available to help decrease startup time - but the best is the autoruns tool from sysinternals. There are some tools that rearrange the files on the file system - but it's just best to use a rule of thumb - if you don't need it to start - then shut it down at boot time.