Windows 8.1, like other versions of operating systems, usually take a considerable amount of time to start up; This is because the user generally installs indiscriminately a large number of applications that later, you can not delete them, resulting in that the operating system consumes a very important time for us to start.
If you know which are the applications that are not uninstalled in a conventional way, then we recommend that you review our tutorial in which we advise the use of a simple tool that can help you with this task. Now we could also disable a few services that start with Windows 8.1, making use of its native tool msconfig, which has a good degree of effectiveness when it comes to fulfilling its task. But How do you know the time it takes Windows 8.1 to start up completely? In this article we will propose the use of a few alternatives that you can use to find out this information.
Applications to measure startup speed in Windows 8.1
Windows Boot Timer is perhaps one of the best alternatives to know the startup speed in Windows 8.1; all you have to do is run the application so that it is housed in the computer's memory. Later, the computer will restart and the tool will begin to measure the execution time of each of the processes in the operating system. When it has finished running, the tool will automatically remove itself from memory and report the time that Windows 8.1 has taken to fully start.
Boot Racer is another tool that we could use with the same objective, which takes full control of the operating system to measure the exact time it is taking to boot.
AppTimer It can also help us in this task though, with a series of statistics on several reboots; the tool like the others, is housed in the computer memory, measuring the time it takes the system to reach the screen where the user must place their credentials. In each measurement the application will close automatically after Windows has started completely, offering a result of the average time that has been taken in all those reboots.
Soluto It is considered by many to be the most complete application that exists for this type of scenario; the aforementioned tools will help us measure how fast Windows 8.1 takes to finish booting, something that Soluto also manages to do but with a few other additional features that we are sure to like; In addition to measuring this startup speed, the tool is also able to report which applications are starting, and which are taking too long to run.
Under this working environment, with Soluto we would have the possibility to improve performance and startup speed in Windows 8.1, This is because the application will help us to make these applications (processes or services) run after the operating system loads. With this, we could have an operating system started more quickly than before, while the rest of the processes and resources can be executed as we work on the computer.
We could almost assure you that the first tool we mentioned and the latter will help us immensely when it comes to knowing the speed time as well as how to optimize this factor so that Windows 8.1 starts more quickly. In the first case, the application is portable, the measurement time does not involve the execution of the BIOS nor, if we have entered it to manage a few parameters. It is also worth mentioning that all these applications are also compatible with Windows 7, although we wanted to refer them to the new Microsoft operating system due to its compatibility with it.