[joedissmeyer]

There are a large amount of enterprises, businesses, universities, and other entities that are having serious issues with boot performance on their Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers. This article is at least a starting point to help out the I.T. technicians tasked to fix the problem.

[dmboyd]

Bootvis used to be the go-to tool before Microsoft discontinued it. Good to see there's an alternative now for win 7 & 8, but why on earth does it need to be bundled into a 5 gig download?

[joedissmeyer]

If you choose the advanced installation option in Windows ADK, you can choose only to install the Windows Performance Toolkit which is under 80mb.

[meaty]

We dont get this. All our desktops are left on 24/7 and laptops are hibernated.

I don't get the obsession with boot times - its a rare occurrence.

[dagw]

I've worked at places that had it as part of their environmental/energy-saving policy that you must turn off your computer when you leave. I could often turn on my computer, get a cup of coffee, and finish drinking said cup of coffee, before my computer was in a state where I could get work done.

[meaty]

That's a bit silly. There are a couple of things to consider:

1. ACPI power saving modes draw very little current. As long as your computer is configured to drop to that, it's fine. It will resume within 1-2 seconds as well.

2. There are companies which have software which manage this and power your workstations up before you get in and down after you've left.

[SolarNet]

At my university our machines are dual booted with unix, users, students, will swap between them as needed. Causing booting to be a rather common occurrence.

[meaty]

Odd. We had a couple of labs for each. This was years ago though (SunOS4 days).

[sliverstorm]

It depends on usage, and frankly it also depends a lot on hardware. Some hardware behaves better than others with repeated sleep/wake.

As for desktops, some elect to turn them off to save power at night.