Thread: Microsoft promises faster boot times in Windows 8

Since boot times for many users play a major role, Microsoft wants to speed up booting Windows 8 coming in significantly over its predecessor. A new start-up mode, performing a blend of the traditional cold start (cold boot) and waking up from hibernation (hibernate), will allow this.


When you shut down Windows 8 will be closed while as Windows 7, the user sessions, but they send the kernel-sessions in the resting state, the session data are therefore in a file (hiberfil.sys) is stored on the hard disk. In contrast to a complete rest, the amount of data is quite low (about 10 to 15 percent of the working memory), and be quick to write to disk and load when you restart again quickly.





Through this process will re-initialization of the driver who is otherwise responsible for a large part of the boot time by 30 to 70 percent faster vonstattengehen how you determined in-house tests on various computers.


The use of an SSD as system drive and UEFI, a successor of the traditional BIOS can, of course, the faster boot times speed up even further. If needed, despite all, a "real" cold start, for example, after installing new hardware, there remains the possibility of running Windows 8, a complete shutdown (complete shutdown) as Windows to select 7th The option "restart" in the user interface also leads to a traditional cold start. The following video will demonstrate the "fast startup" Windows 8th Interested can find detailed information about this topic in theMSDN blog .