What boots faster – Netbook, powered Windows XP or Nokia E71 mobile phone?

Some days ago, somebody from Microsoft was shocked, when I told him, that I’m planning to run Windows XP (and later Windows 7) as operation system for mission critical automotive device. He even checked with Windows XP embedded team boot times for XP. They told him, that the minimum can be achieved is about 40 seconds cold boot and 30 seconds from hibernate state. I was upset and decided to tweak my system for smallest possible boot time. Here the result video. This is not the limit. I believe, that I’ll be able to decrease Windows XP boot time to less, then 10 seconds with a bit more efforts.

Note: This is absolutely authentic and non-touched video, recorded today by me, comparing boot time of Windows XP on unbranded weak netbook (Atom 1.6, 128MB and 8G SSD) and my Nokia E71 mobile phone. 15 seconds boot time of Windows XP achieved by tweaking only well known registry values and OS configuration values without special profundity of system settings.

Now the question: with todays’ devices, why we are not running XP for mobile and automotive mission critical devices?

26 Responses to “What boots faster – Netbook, powered Windows XP or Nokia E71 mobile phone?”

haider_up32 Says:
January 1st, 2009 at 12:59 am
-forget mission critical winxp isnt even suited 4 business devicess…u will need an AV and then a firewall and then u will have rootkits scanners and then u will realise drive by downloads and then u will need url scanners…after installing all this u will realise the boot time increased to 2 minutes.

- what r the settings u use 4 ur in-house XP’s???
Tamir Khason Says:
January 1st, 2009 at 12:59 am
Baruch, Ariel I’ll spear it, once I’ll make it less, then 10 seconds overall.
arielr Says:
January 1st, 2009 at 12:59 am
Well than, why don’t you spread the joy?

Which settings do you use?
Baruch Frei Says:
January 1st, 2009 at 12:59 am
I hope that after you will reach your goal, you will share with us those settings….Thanks.
Tamir Khason Says:
January 1st, 2009 at 12:59 am
It should be "smart device"
Tom Says:
January 1st, 2009 at 12:59 am
Your question scares me.

Also, you should get a better cell phone. My Nokia 6126 goes from powered off to ready to use in under 5 seconds.
Pete O'Hanlon Says:
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 am
Here in the UK, the Emergency services such as the Fire Brigade use ruggedised MDTs running Windows XP, and these systems run just fine. These are, by definition, mission critical applications – lives depend on their reliability and XP performs fine.
Tamir Says:
January 4th, 2009 at 10:01 am
You are right. Here too Police using Windows 2000 in their vehicles, however for some reason people not really trust Windows in automotive industry for mission critical operations
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August 19th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
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December 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
The ASUS Eee PC 1005HA-PU1X-BU 10.1 Inch Blue Netbook is awesome. I truly enjoy using it and the 10.5 hour battery life is really helpful. And it’s fast too. The 2 gig memory upgrade really sped up things. Internet access is quick. As a blogger, I find it very convenient to use. I can write my articles everywhere, anywhere and anytime I feel inspired. I highly recommend this “small but terrible” machine to anyone who wants portability and power.
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