[adorno]

Boot time on my Windows 8.1 machine is less than 12 seconds, and that machine is a 6 core AMD, with 2 TB hard-drive, and 16 GB main memory.

With Windows 7 in it, the same machine took about 2 minutes to boot up.

[oh8eleven]

I appreciate that, but I was responding to the FReeper who compared XP and Win7 and said there was no difference.
BTW, my Dell PC with Win7 is a year old and boots in less than 30 seconds.