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[bbz149]

Id put 7 and XP head to head anyday for boot time.

My career is Enterprise Desktop IT, you could say I know XP and 7 very well, the TCP stack alone boots 2 seconds quicker in 7 X64.

Its all about the motherboard and I can 100% assure you if you are using P4 era hardware, the Motherboard boot time will be as much as a good 7 System in total.

Look forward to videos though.

15 seconds from cold - XP? Which motherboard?

And old Intel 3.2 GHZ HT. The SSD chip is 1GB from a Dell FX160. Ill test boot time when I get a chance.

I got a spare SD if you want to install MicroXp. End of the day XP might be old, but it works! so why use bloatware

Don’t forget that microXP is a heavily stripped version of
XP so boots nice and quick if you also disable all the pre boot crap on the
motherboard

 

[BristolMartin]

But that's my point you cant disable all the montherboard stuff.

ILl tell you what - I am so sure 7 is faster even out of the box Ill take some time and put it to the test. I have a large virtual environment here:

32 Cores

64GB Ram

2GB/Sec SSD's

I'll stick both versions on VM ware and well see which comes first. Please give me a link to your XP version in ISO format.

 

[cools]

I have a setup at home that boots XP dedicated for MAME in about 12 seconds from cold. This is including the BIOS bits. It's running a ridiculously cut down installation from compact flash on a Pentium M 1.8

The Windows boot is about 4 seconds.

 

[BristolMartin]

Are you using mame for the shell?