Oh well, wrong again.
My entire system is plunged into a multiway extension block, so at night it's a case of start>shutdown then when it has turn of the wall socket and everything is off, next morning all I have to do is to switch on the wall socket switch.
My BT hub takes about twice as long as Windows 7 to fire up. I will time it tomorrow just to see, mind you I think a lot of the time is spent initializing the VOIP side of things.