• Boot Time: 70 seconds
• Prime: 26 seconds
• FileIO: 25seconds

Software % Boot Delay % Prime Delay % FileIO Delay Norton Internet Security 2006 46 20 2369 McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8 7 20 2246 Norton Internet Security 2007 45 8 1515 Trend Micro PC-cillin AV 2006 2 0 1288 ZoneAlarm ISS 16 0 992 Norton Antivirus 2002 11 8 658 Windows Live OneCare 11 8 512 Webroot Spy Sweeper 6 8 369 Nod32 v2.5 7 8 177 avast! 4.7 Home 4 8 115 Windows Defender 5 8 54 Panda Antivirus 2007 20 4 15 AVG 7.1 Free 15 0 19 Internet Explorer 7 RC1 14 4 0 Windows Media Player 11 10 0 8 iTunes 7 (with QuickTime) 5 8 4 ZoneAlarm Free 4 4 8 Nero 7.5.1.1 Premium 10 4 0 Windows Media Player 10 5 0 8 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.8 4 4 4 Miranda IM 0.5.1 2 8 0 Winamp 5.24 Full 2 4 4 Real Player 10.5 2 4 4 Skype 2.5.0.141 5 4 0 Daemon Tools 4 4 0 Alcohol 120% 1.9 5 0 0 Opera 9.01 2 0 0 VLC Player 0.8.5 2 0 0 AdAware 1 0 0 Maxthon 1.5.6 (IE6) 1 0 0 Zoomplayer 4.5.1 1 0 0 Firefox 1.5.0.7 1 0 0 CDBurnerXP Pro 3.0.116 1 0 0 Foxit PDF Reader 2 0 0 0 Xchat 2.6.7a 0 0 0 5000 images in My Photos 0 0 0 mIRC 0 0 0 Black Viper's Services Tweaks -4 0 0 Boot Delay

The boot delays were quite a lot smaller than last time, likely to be attributable to VMWare having a better grasp on its file system than Virtual PC, but the same names were at the top of this test.

Prime Delay

I wasn't expecting too much of a result from here. The prime delays would have come on systems where there were applications hogging resources.

FileIO Delay

The only applications this was going to affect were the system-monitors; those applications that require 100% attention on the file system, namely the security products.