QOTW: How long does your PC take to boot?

[gagaga]

Last bios 8.4 seconds. Seems to take a while to get it's act together initially.

[Lord Midas]

a measly 10 seconds

[Korrorra]

Windows: From a restart to the desktop about 25 seconds. From boot logo to desktop about 6 seconds with icons loading in taskbar.
Linux distro Manjaro KDE: 2 minutes. 1 minute to load the mouse icon and another to actually get to the desktop. Give or take several more seconds to load the real desktop and not just a cool wallpaper.

[the_Unforgiven]

71 secs, and that is with a NVMe in the PCIe slot

[robznz]

way too long old computer and live in nz so internet connection is that great either even with fibre:-(as

[Xoric]

my bios seems to take an age to kick in (8-10 secs) but once it gets past that it's ready in about 5 seconds.

[kalniel]

completely ignoring the method you want us to use and looking in Task manager on the startup tab. it says Last BIOS Time 45.1 Seconds.
which is a long time. longer than the 30 ish it took on Phenom 2 computer.

I turn it on, one of the LED's cycles through orange, red, green, white, then it goes BEEP. theres a white _ symbol blinking on the screen for ages, then it shows the ROG logo for about 3 seconds, then win10 logo comes on screen, the rotatey symbol barely has enough time to do one of those rotatey things. then BLAM windows desktop. antivrus and nvidia settings notification icons second or so later.

I hope the long wait at the start is to do with the mechanical drives and 2 external WD Elements taking their time to turn on, so the BIOS can sort the drive order thing it does.
it did seem to only take that long after installing windows then plugging them all in. was super speedy with only 1 SSD in it.

Maybe the externals. I'm running 2 SSDs and 2 mechanical HDDs, plus a plethora of peripheral cards and get a last BIOS time of 7.7 seconds. Manually timed button press to windows is about 20 seconds.

Edit: OK stopwatch is so un-Hexus Launch event viewer, navigate to

Event Viewer\Application and Services Logs\Microsoft\Windows\Diagnostics\Performance\Operational

And look for a 'Windows has started up' Event 100 warning. It gives a boot duration time in ms, and in the details tab breaks down the components with fine granularity (kernel, driver, devices, profile etc.)

Event 101s in the same folder list things like which applications take longer than usual to start up. So I can see that my AV is causing 7 seconds of my loading time, though I suspect it's probably loading in the background so I don't notice. And I'm happy to have AV cause a bit of a delay.

[kalniel]

And to go further down the rabbit hole, there is an excellent sysinternals app to control autoruns if you want more control than the start-up tab:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...loads/autoruns

[samuraiweasel]

20s to desktop, 37s till all the tray icons finish popping up

[jnutt]

24 seconds from power switch pressed to desktop That includes a password.

[Iota]

Last Bios time 15.0s. Probably about 30-40 seconds once I've put my password in and it's loaded everything (being pedantic about it).

[ik9000]

my win10 machine takes longer to post than to boot windows. Wish I could improve the post time!

[nar53]

OK So I use three different computers. 1 x very low powered Linux Laptop. 1 x Mid powered Windows 7 HTPC & My main PC which is a high powered Hackintosh.

Linux Laptop 20sec boot up

Hackintosh 90sec boot up (Slow due to boot loader)

Win7 HTPC reports about 60sec but it actually takes a good 5 minutes before its ready to use.

[Duckboy79]

Task manager says Last bios time 7.1 seconds, which is probs about right

[Terbinator]

17s according to Task Manager. I guess this might include time I spent entering password too.

[duc]

Approx 6sec from power button to Windows Hello logging to desktop. Last Bios time 2.6s. 18sec if I leave the external hard drive connected.