[damien c]

Mine takes about 15 second's from the point where the window's 7 square appear's to being in window's but it takes, about 20 second's from that point before I can play a game.

From pressing the power button it takes roughly 1 minute to be able to play a game, simply because of my SSD and the overclock on my cpu.

If I had a motherboard that didn't do all the check's that mine does then I could in a game inside of 40 second's.

SSD's work better and faster with a overclocked cpu but the normal disk drive's I think might be wrong but I don't think they take advantage of a overclocked cpu.

My pc is mainly used for gaming but if I wanted to convert a video the only thing that stops me from being able to do it in less than 2 minutes is my 2tb hdd's.

These type of program's are good for people who have alot of program's that start on boot that are not needed but, if you have enough confidence you can just use msconfig instead and it is just as good I suspect, although I have not tried soluto so couldn't say for sure.

When the type of storage that has already been mentioned come's around then these program's will be useless.

The other thing is look at Apple with there laptop's you lift the lid and they are there and ready instantly but, do it with a windows laptop and you have to wait so the issue is also down to window's not being optimised fully to use the hardware fully to speed thing's up.

Some of the thing's I said may be wrong and I am sure I will be corrected but people should really look at a SSD if they really need the time it, takes for there pc to boot shortend as they are very quick when used as a boot drive.