Windows 8 to feature drastically reduced boot time, shown off in video

Published on 09-09-2011 04:19 PM

Watch the above video closely, because you might just miss the moment: according to the latest post on MSDN's Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft's next-gen desktop OS will see a hugely improved boot time thanks to a clever technique. Rather than closing both the user session and the kernel session like in a traditional shutdown, Windows 8 will preserve the kernel session on the disk, thus creating a "hiberfile" that's much smaller than that of the usual Windows hibernation -- see the diagram after the break for a clearer idea. The result? An amazingly fast system bootup -- even with the battery removed to begin with -- that claims to be 30 to 70 percent faster than most systems tested by Microsoft. We're itching to test this feature on an SSD ourselves, but until then, you can head over to MSDN's blog for the full technical explanation.

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tesco - 09-09-2011, 10:16 PM
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Now motherboard manufacturers really need to get up off their asses and come up with a way to speed up POST.
That's about 33% of the time spent starting up my win7 with an SSD.

iLOVENZB - 09-09-2011, 10:59 PM
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For those interested: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2....aspx#10208312 Test client is a EliteBook 8640p (Intel® Core™ i7-620M, 8GB, 160GB SSD).

Well done Microsoft~!!!!11!1

Hell, I bet even Linux distros formatted on ext4 using a SSD can bootup under 10seconds

edit: I was right: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ubuntu...n-175-seconds/

tesco - 09-09-2011, 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted by iLOVENZB

For those interested: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2....aspx#10208312 Test client is a EliteBook 8640p (Intel® Core™ i7-620M, 8GB, 160GB SSD).

Well done Microsoft~!!!!11!1

Hell, I bet even Linux distros formatted on ext4 using a SSD can bootup under 10seconds

edit: I was right: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ubuntu...n-175-seconds/

When I was using ubuntu (11.04) it booted in around the same amount of time as win7.

Sporkk - 09-10-2011, 04:18 AM
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Waking from s3 sleep is still faster.

mjmacky - 09-10-2011, 05:25 AM
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I'm still waiting for AMD-supported UEFI boards :/

duke0102 - 09-10-2011, 09:46 AM
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From what I've read there claiming similar speeds fro non SSD boots. I'm not at all surprised they used SSD in this video but it's very misleading. Cheers for that extra info Tesco