Windows 7 OS slower than Vista on boot up

Microsoft has been telling us for some time that the new Windows 7 Operating System is a vast improvement over Vista in all areas. One area of importance to us are boot up times, in was suggested that Windows 7 would be much faster at booting up than its predecessor, it seems that this information was wrong.

Most people who have been running the beta version of Windows 7 did report faster boot up times, however in a recent test by Iolo Technologies, which we came across via Engadget, they found that this was not the case. The maker of PC tune-up software put Windows 7 under a long-term test to see how the OS would perform under real world use.

Windows 7 took one minute and 34 seconds to boot, this was compared to one minute 6 seconds for Vista. The company also found that boot up times got slower over time for the new OS, a three-month old Windows 7 took an extra minute to boot. However, this was much faster than Vista in that time.

However, when Windows 7 was up and running Vista was not match for the new OS. In addition, when Windows 7 was in sleep mode, it had a much faster restart time than Vista. We will all get to see if these finding are true in a couple of weeks.

Windows 7 is hopes to revive Microsoft, this is according to Steve Ballmer, so the new OS needs to do a far better job than Vista did.