Vista 64 bit faster than XP 32 bit?

[Thelis]

Imagine how many OSs will fit into those. *drool*

I don't know anything about 64-bit, but my Vista Ultimate 32 loads up about five times faster than when my rig had XP on it.

 

[Raffaz]

TBH, my XP and Vista bootup in about the same time

 

[mtotho]

64 bit is usually faster than 32 bit. Think of it this way: one is a 32 foot wide street and the other is 64 foot, the 64 foot street gets more information down the road faster..

 

[Toby1]

Well, I copied and pasted what Raffaz wrote and it cut down the loading time to 9 and a 1/4 cycles. So thanks for that mate.

How long does it take the loading bar to go through for you guys?

Edit: I just resstarted the olds PC, it has a similar setup as mine (security and program wise at least) but it's a Celeron 2.8 GhZ, 512 MB PC3200 DDR RAM, 80 GB 7200 IDE HD... It took only 4 and a 1/4 cycles on the loading bar... Go figure.

 

[DannyBoy1]

I don't really think it matters tomuch because everyones computer is different in some way so...

mine takes about 3 or 4 max..but thats XP.

 

[Raffaz]

What stuff have you got loading at startup? Has the other pc got less stuff installed?

Theres also a little utility called bootvis which gives you a graphical interpretation of the boot loader process, so you can see where its taking the time to load

 

[Toby1]

Maybe not, but I still think something is wrong somewhere. I mean, as if a PC with a Celeron and 512 MB DDR will load up faster than a Laptop with a C2D and 2 GB DDR2.

Edit: I'll get a screenshot of my Tuneup Start Up Manager.

Laptop

PC

The PC is just on one HD with no partitions.

 

[Raffaz]

I would d/l bootvis and see where the problem is with that
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664

 

[Toby1]

So how do I work out where the problem is?

Bootvis Laptop

On a side note the version of XP on my laptop is legal... the one on the olds PC isn't... Not that that'd really make a difference... Only other thing that I can think of that would be different is that the PC would have less drivers and it doesn't have Net Framework 2 installed on it.

Edit: I don't even know if this is the right thing your looking for in Bootvis... Just played around and clicked Trace - Next Boot. Oh, I just saw the optimise thing. So I did that and it took 4 and a half cycles, and just then 7 and a half. So that's an improvement. Thanks again.