Microsoft Windows 8 Boots in 8 Seconds Flat (Video)
I have no need to completely shutdown my workstation often except after applying patches. Thankfully my machine is at the state where putting it in hibernation as well as waking it up does not cause grief nor unbearable latency. But it is not the case of 57% of desktop PC users and 45% of laptop users, who shut down their machines rather than putting them to sleep, according data claimed by Microsoft.
In the next version Windows 8, Microsoft reworks the boot process to minimize time from zero to Metro UI for as little as 8 seconds.
The key improvements are in the new hibernation process as described below:
“we close the user sessions, but instead of closing the kernel session, we hibernate it. Compared to a full hibernate, which includes a lot of memory pages in use by apps, session 0 hibernation data is much smaller, which takes substantially less time to write to disk. If you’re not familiar with hibernation, we’re effectively saving the system state and memory contents to a file on disk (hiberfil.sys) and then reading that back in on resume and restoring contents back to memory. Using this technique with boot gives us a significant advantage for boot times, since reading the hiberfile in and reinitializing drivers is much faster on most systems (30-70% faster on most systems we’ve tested).”
The new process provides speedy boot time on both spinning disk or SSD. Just take their word for it, beside the below video showing the boot time using a laptop equipped with SSD for your enjoyment!
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[Via Thisismynext]
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