Windows 7 64 bit bootup in 20 seconds old laptop

Put a fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit on a modest core2duo 1.5ghz 2gb Acer 5920G purchased in 2007. Results are amazing: from completely off it boots in 20 seconds, and 8 seconds later the wireless adapter found a connection and the internet was working. Shutdown is instant, press the button and the screen turns off immediately and the laptop is good to go. On this same laptop Vista use to take over 2 minutes to boot.

Some people will complain "It's resuming, not booting up". Technically it's resuming from hibernation, where the OS writes the contents of RAM to the hard drive and shuts down. A hibernating machine uses no power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernate_(OS_feature)

Because hibernate uses no power there is no reason to shutdown the laptop entirely since the end result will be the same, no power being used. The battery can be removed, put back in, and the laptop would still resume from hibernation within 20 seconds. The laptop came with Vista and hibernate did not function correctly, still taking several minutes to resume from hibernation.

the stopwatch is from
http://stopwatch.onlineclock.net/

music is from Windows 7 Song - Music Seven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMfTjabMu2k

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