Windows 8 boot takes only 6 seconds

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In addition to the interface and a lot of new features, Microsoft Windows 8 has greatly improved the startup speed, as early as Windows 8 design. Early developers will have a faster start as an important goal. At the D9 and Computex conferences, Microsoft demonstrated Windows 8, which also talked about the speed of the system startup.

According to Michael Angiulo, Microsoft's vice president of Windows strategy and hardware, the Windows 8 system gives users an unprecedented quick start experience. In the demonstration, system booting is only required on machines with UEFI and SSDs. 6 seconds.

UEFI, the full name "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface", is a standard that describes the new type of interface in detail, the main purpose is to provide a set before the operating system is loaded ( Before starting, the consistent, correctly specified startup service on all platforms is the successor to the BIOS.

At Computex 2011, Insyde announced that its UEFI BIOS solution, InsydeH2O, already supports Windows 8. Insyde said that according to the current test, Windows 8 saves 40% of the BIOS startup time on the same platform.

However, Microsoft clarified that Windows 6's 6-second boot is not currently a standard case.

In the Windows 8 shutdown settings, Microsoft has also added a new hibernation form of Hybrid Boot. After using this mode, the system can greatly reduce the startup time when rebooting.