Boot Windows in four seconds

That's pretty impressive in itself - pity about the disappointment you must feel when you hit the fifth second and realise . . . it's still windows. :o
 
Sounds very nice, but why is it only on certain models? Do they change parts of XP or Vista to be able to get this right?

This is important for someone on a laptop which does not stay on, but my desktops are almost always switched on. I would rather take a longer boot time with more in the prefetch so that my applications can start quicker when I need it.
 
I rate this is some cheap trick with a solid state drive!
 
A **** in a ferrari is still a ****, he's just a very fast **** :D
 
the clue is in the words used on youtube to describe it...s3 and s4
s3 is suspend to ram, s4 is suspend to disk.

what the asrock motherboard does is take the time that it normally takes to boot windows, and moves that so that it becomes an extra long shutdown time.

confused yet?
?

ok, i'll explain..
you are in windows, and select "shutdown"..the bios gets a call saying what it has to do, and it shuts the machine down...then, without you knowing, and with the graphics switched off so no screen output is shown, it REBOOTS the machine and once you get to windows desktop it then IMMEDIATELY either does a s3 or a s4 manoevure, depending on which option you selected.

now, tomorrow you come to switch your pc on, and it then either resumes from memory or does the old lets get out of hibernation trick..........so it looks like it booted very quickly, but in effect it just took a hell of a long time to shutdown

everybopdy up to date? cool....lets move on...

it should be possible to achieve this with most normal pc's with some code...intercept the shutdown command (or...make a custom shortcut on the desktop)....when run, make a file on c:\RESUME_ (or anyting you want)...and then issue a reboot instead.

next trick, is to have a program running at startup. ...if this program finds c:\resume_ then delete it, and issue a suspend.

voila...now your machine will do the same as the asrock mb, apart form the fact that your reboot will be with the graphics activated.
 
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bwana said:
That's pretty impressive in itself - pity about the disappointment you must feel when you hit the fifth second and realise . . . it's still windows. :o
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LOL windows is not all bad. Linux is great, but they all have their place in the world. :)
 
Slootvreter said:
I wonder what people do that their Windows crashes all the time. :confused:
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Me too, I could never understand that.

I use windows not for the operating system itself, but for the applications that I can run on it. I currently use XP and my laptop has not had a reinstall in almost three years now, and I can't actually remember it ever crashing. I cant comment on Vista though... but I'm sure a lot of you guys out there can.
 
Dam, now I can't get my coffee while my pc is booting up! I say it's a scam to let people work more and not walk around while it's booting up.
 
sunsoffun said:
Me too, I could never understand that.

I use windows not for the operating system itself, but for the applications that I can run on it. I currently use XP and my laptop has not had a reinstall in almost three years now, and I can't actually remember it ever crashing. I cant comment on Vista though... but I'm sure a lot of you guys out there can.
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Vista is cool, ONLY if you have a high-end PC. Still prefer XP though. Oh yes, before I forget, I have a PC running Ubuntu 8.10 also. Looks pretty cool, just haven't figured out what to use it for yet :)
 
I can't remember either when last Windows crashed on me... I can run XP for days and days and days, only time I generally restart is when I install drivers or something.
 
Bah.

I can start any version of Windows and Linux (and even OS/2) up in less than 1 second.







Just unpause the virtual engine :p
 
At this time the Instant Boot system works only on Windows XP or Vista versions under certain conditions.
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Following wind, blue moon, lay lines and planets all in alignment, that sort of thing?
 
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