Win8 Six seconds Boot tutorial: increase twice times boot speed

SSD hard disk prices in the past two years has been declining, many installed users are preferred solid-state hard disk to do system disk, can greatly improve the storage speed and boot speed, by a lot of DIY hardware players in pursuit.

Intel's latest release of the Haswell platform can natively support the SATA3.0, so that the common SATA2.0 storage speed, based on another step faster, especially in SATA3.0 with SSD hard disk, the boot speed up to 10 seconds. Here we will teach you to maximize the speed of SSD, using i7 4770k+ Soyo h87+ Energy-saving version, into 6 seconds of fast boot design.

This test, using the latest Haswell i7 4770K processor and Soyo h87+ Energy-saving edition, this motherboard uses the ATX board design, based on the Intel brand new H87 chipset design, seven-phase power supply, capable of compatible with all LGA1150 Haswell processors. The test memory used is the DDR3 1600 4G, plus the WINDOWS8 64bit system, which can fully perform the host performance of the Intel fourth generation processor.

Microsoft's newly released Windows 8 system, which transcends traditional design, strengthens the ability to interact with touch-handling and interactive platforms. In addition, WINDOWS8 compared to the previous generation of WINDOWS7 systems, also provides a number of excellent technologies, such as kernel hibernation technology, optimize the touch browsing experience of the IE10 browser, native USB3.0 support, etc., for the user's control experience to bring more choices.

Platform startup, System Self-Test takes up too long, from the power button to appear win8 Start menu time accounted for 15 seconds, this time to enter 6 seconds, is how to make Windows 8 has a very fast switch machine effect? This is thanks to the Quick Launch feature provided by Windows 8.

If not, press Win+i-Control Panel-Power Options – Select the power button-change the current unavailable settings – Shutdown Settings – Enable Quick Launch on the hook (recommended), select the function of the power button, you can see that the long press power button is off state, this time set to sleep function.

Finally, you do not need a password to wake up, and you set the shutdown settings as shown in the previous illustration. Remember to click the "Save Settings" button to save the settings.

The quick start of Windows 8 is located in the "System Setup" of power options, and it is literally easy to understand that it is a feature that allows the Windows 8 system to start faster and more quickly, which is enabled by default when we install Windows 8. Of course, you can also turn it off by changing the settings.

Well, after you've covered the detailed setup steps for the Quick Start feature of Windows 8, let's verify how this feature can help with the Windows 8 quick boot. This is the WINDOWS8 system with the boot log, we can get from boot to enter the system time is: 6 seconds.

Intel Haswell Platform: Soyo sy-h87+ 3E + I7 4770K+SSD SSD combination has quite good performance, the price of the motherboard is also cheap, absolutely is the first choice of the machine, from all aspects of the test performance. Especially in conjunction with the WINDOWS8 operating system, like a powerful menace. Interested friends, you can also try 6 seconds to boot settings.