Everyone is saying how fast WDP starts so now I am curious.

You can use the tool in this tutorial to test your reboot times; at the link below.

How to See What Your Windows 7 Restart Time is

Here are mine;

Desktop



Laptop

Last time I checked it was also in the 60's. But it spent more time in the BIOS than it took for the boot per se.

lol yes mine as well
Its just a bit of fun to see what time everyone gets.

Mine says 60Secs but it boots a bit faster than 60 secs.


Windows 8 DP Boot Time - YouTube

EDIT: never mind, I forgot the difference between cold boot and reboot.

Btw: the system records boot times in event viewer.

Eventvwr
Applications and Service Logs
Microsoft
Windows
Diagnostics - performance
Operational
Event ID 100

The fastest I ever saw (on my Sony i7 Laptop with SSD) was 16 seconds.

Not good for me. But, than, I have installed quite a few programs in Win8 (Office 2010, Display Fusion, Logitech Setpoint, Paint.Net and on and on).

Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 99819ms (99 819 milliseconds = 1.66365 minutes)
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2011‎-‎10‎-‎20T01:12:21.992655100Z

I can't test it right now, but I will after Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional is done reinstalling. I need it for my C++ homework, . I assume this testing application simply gets the time right before shutting down, and right after starting up then subtracts them.

if i use the reboot tool it took 157 sec if i do it by hand it reboot in 45 sec.

Originally Posted by Windows 8

I can't test it right now, but I will after Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional is done reinstalling. I need it for my C++ homework, . I assume this testing application simply gets the time right before shutting down, and right after starting up then subtracts them.

Something like that, all I know is that it works You can also find the start up time using the other method.