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Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system boots slower than its unloved predecessor, Windows Vista, a PC tune-up developer said today.
The claims by iolo Technologies, a Los Angeles maker of PC software, contradict Microsoft's boasts that Windows 7 starts up faster than Vista.
According to iolo's tests, Windows 7 starts up 42% slower than Vista -- one minute, 34 seconds versus one minute, six seconds -- on a brand new machine when the time trials are run to the point where the machine is usable, at least by iolo's standards.
Windows 7 does seem to start faster than Vista, said iolo, with its time-to-the-desktop measured as around 40 seconds. But iolo measured startup as the point where the computer is "fully usable," with a low load on the processor.
Microsoft has said it's dedicated significant resources to making Windows 7 boot, and resume from sleep and hibernation, faster than Vista, which has been panned since 2007 for starting slowly: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/29/boot-performance.aspx (http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/29/boot-performance.aspx)
Other tests, however, have echoed iolo, and showed that in some cases Windows 7 does boot slower than Vista. PC World, a sister publication to Computerworld , for example, benchmarked the new operating system as starting about 10% slower than Vista when 32-bit versions of the two were compared, although it was 14% faster on 64-bit.
iolo also said its tests indicated that Windows 7's startup times, like Vista's, degrade over time. After several "commonly-used" applications have been installed on a new Windows 7 box, for instance, its boot time -- again, as measured by the company -- slows to two minutes, 34 seconds, an increase of 64%.
Over an even more extended span, Windows 7's boot times get more sluggish than that: By the end of a simulated two-year period, Windows 7's startup times increased more than 330%.
Boot times have become a hot topic. Last week, Chinese computer maker Lenovo said its new ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops will boot Windows 7 56% faster than when loading XP or Vista, thanks to operating system, driver, and power management tweaks it made.
iolo said it will release more details and results of its Windows 7 boot-time benchmarks on Monday.
(PCW)
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This could become a major problem if Windows 7 were to start slower than its predecessors...
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Nobody believes in the microsoft´s speeches!!!
After that they start up the knowings Services pack
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thankfully this is not the case.
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I think thsi Window 7 is best windows released by microsoft i was working on all microsoft OS and till now never face peoblems with WIn 7
Thanks Microsoft
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not for me.windows 7 boot faster than vista.... ;D
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the same for me, 7 start on max 30 seconds, before on vista was more 45 seconds
depends too the hardware you have ;)
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Gonna have to call Shenanigans on this one. Win7 is just a faster cleaner version of Vista minus all the memory hogging useless junk
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Same here, I went into vista x64 then back to XP x64, now Win7 x64, on my 2 yr old core2duo machine with 4G ram, win7 is the fastest.
We booted win7 on a pentium 4 machine, and it runs way smoother than XP...
check out the tablet PCs with atom cpu and 1GB of ram and 60GB disk or less, win7 is fast! and in no way comparable to vista, vista wouldnt load on such machines! :)
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WHAT!!!! My Win7 WOOOORKIIING PERFECT. Faster then XP SP3, and Vista Ultimate.
Maybe new iolo software is crap. I cant belive.
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WHAT!!!! My Win7 WOOOORKIIING PERFECT. Faster then XP SP3, and Vista Ultimate.
Maybe new iolo software is crap. I cant belive.
In my opinion, there is a catch ;) :
Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system boots slower than its unloved predecessor, Windows Vista, a PC tune-up developer said today.
Windows 7 does seem to start faster than Vista, said iolo, with its time-to-the-desktop measured as around 40 seconds. But iolo measured startup as the point where the computer is "fully usable," with a low load on the processor.
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Generally newer version of anything run slower. This has always been the Microsoft philosophy: release new software that runs slower on current computers thus forcing the consumer to buy a new computer to run the updated software which by the time he does the new software will already be outdated thus forcing another new pc purchase. It's sort of a catch 22. Personally I never get new versions of anything. I always wait a good while so the bugs can be ironed out.
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interesting
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Ive used Vista and win 7 and win 7 is definitely faster!!
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he utilizado el win vista y win 7 en el trabajo y de uso en mi portatil y la verdad el w7 se lleva por lejos al win vista.
y la compatibilidad con software antigua es una de las mejoras sustanciales.