Building a Lenovo-like fast-bootable Windows 7 machine?

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It's all about the mobo chief. Find one that advertises quick boots. You may also have to disable all of the splash screens.
 
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Just curious- what is the use case that dictates driving a computer build/purchase by boot time?
 
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kencheeto said:
Just curious- what is the use case that dictates driving a computer build/purchase by boot time?
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Impatience. Am aware that Win7 hybrid sleep negates bootup.

It's not the single factor driving a build, but it is definitely a plus to choose parts (AMD/Intel), memory, hdd (sdd vs sata) that would give every extra kick to another build.
 
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Well the biggest thing you can do to reduce boot times is get an SSD. Most of your time booting is OS loading and they'll really cut that down. Barring that, a 10k HDD will do a major job. Other than that a fast CPU will help a bit, and you can look at motherboards to see which have shorter BIOS cycles. Disable unneeded shit in the BIOS, particularly extra disk controllers as they usually do their own firmware which takes longer.
 
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chrispycrunch said:
Impatience. Am aware that Win7 hybrid sleep negates bootup.

It's not the single factor driving a build, but it is definitely a plus to choose parts (AMD/Intel), memory, hdd (sdd vs sata) that would give every extra kick to another build.
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Sure. Going solid state will give you the single biggest boost, followed by picking a motherboard that supports UEFI. As mentioned already, disabling any extra features you don't need (sata, legacy controllers, etc) will help as well. Otherwise, I think the differences will be fairly minimal (and largely based on the number of services/drivers you're loading at startup.)

The Lenovo article quotes 33-50% reductions in boot time, which you should be able to easily replicate and more on consumer aftermarket ssds. Of course, an ssd in said Lenovo will probably do very well too :)
 
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