20-30 sec seems reasonable to me, i havent timed it but i think its similar on my w7/64bt 10gb ram 6 processor AMD machine, makes a diff what you have running in the background also, you can see small gains just by limiting the number of update programs that load at startup, such as divX update, realplayer ..etc... my workstation never connects to the internet so i dont even have an antivirus or networking running all services are cut to a minimum and i get lightning fast response, antivirus alone can be a resourse hog, i think the antivirus people think we buy new computers just to run their software , we dont have anything more important to do with them....lol

 

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