Whats your boot time?

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    Oliver

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    Please state your OS and boot time.
    And any relevant customisations to your OS.

    I shall begin.

    XP - Home Edition - Nothing changed, exactly from disk. I have disabled GUI BOOT but this probably makes little to no diference.
    50 seconds - From pressing the button to getting to the desktop.
     
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    goofball

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    You seem horribly obsessed with your boot times and comparing to other's.
     
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    Seriously, just use hibernation mode and you will boot in a few seconds (if you dont have too much crap in memory). Personally i almost never properly reboot or turn off my AA1, I have reassigned the power button to put it in hibernation. I really cant think of a reason to do otherwise.
     
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    does this not affect battery life?
     
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    When your computer is in hibernation mode it will not use any battery. You can easily verify this by removing the battery while in hibernation and replacing it later, window will resume just like if the battery was never removed.
     
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    hibernate (aka S4 /suspend to disk) saves the contents of the RAM to the HD then powers off.
     
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    and how does one enable hibernation/change the off button to hibernate.
     
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    Use the energy settings (im not sure about the exact name of this on English XP), accessible from the control panel or by clicking settings in the Screensaver tab of Monitor settings (right click desktop and choose properties).

    Hibernation is activated by default on AO-150 XP home, and if you click start -> shut down you should be able to choose it.
     
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    wow. thanks. cant believe i never knew about this.

    cheers.
     
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    OS-XP Home (preinstalled), Boot time is <35 seconds.
     
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    Default Linpus linux with a few customisations - 21seconds to desktop, another 16seconds for wifi to finish associating
    Fedora 8 booting from a 16GB sony USB drive - 1m 20s to login screen

    Both measured from a completely shutdown system, starting the clock as I press the power button. The Fedora one could surely be brought down a lot, but am waiting for kernel support for the wifi card before I bother doing any work on it.
     
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    windows xp sp3 nlited 35 secs
     
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