Have you ever measured the starting time or the boot up of your Windows XP or Vista? If you haven’t you might wanna try the following method which I’m going to show you (make sure you are using Windows as your operating system before proceeding to read this post). There are different methods to measure the starting time for WinXP and Vista. In both cases, the BIOS is not taken into consideration since it’s not a part of the Windows.

It is really easy to measure the time in WinXP because we are going to use a nifty software to do so. It is called Boot Timer. The measuring tools record the time between initialization of the first Windows file (XP: “ntloader.exe”, Vista: “bootmgr.exe”) until the complete loading of all services and auto-start programs. Copy the boottimer.exe to your desktop and start the measurement by double-clicking it. The Boot Timer will show the starting time in seconds when Windows is re-booted.

In Vista, you only need to type Eventvwr in the command prompt. This will start the “Event Viewer”. In the directory file of the program, click “Application and Service Logs | Microsoft | Windows | Diagnostics Performance | Operational”. To find the correct log, click on “Filter Current Log” in the “Actions” area. In the “Filter” directory, select the “Last Hour” entry under “Logged” and activate the “Warning” option. Now specify the “Diagnostics-Performance” as “Sources” and write in the line with the “Event-IDs”: 100-199. A click on the “OK” will show the starting time of Vista in milliseconds. If you see several logs, just select the one with the ID “100″, in which the current time has been specified along the date.

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