Any tips to reduce boot time?

[AlphaIVT]

I have an NIC and i know that that increases the boottime, is there any tips, tweaks, tricks, etc. to reduce boot time?

 

[konichiwa]

For christ's sake Alpha, is the l33t "attention grabber" necessary? :Q

 

[PliotronX]

Leave the computer on maybe?

 

[Pennstate]

Did You put in a ip and subnet in the tcp/ip properties?

 

[Viperoni]

Take a leak while your booting your computer.
Solves my problems fine

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Considering that computers are binary, and 0's are effectively meaningless, eliminating long strings of 0's is bound to help.

 

[John]

clear the config & autoexec

 

[goldboyd]

if possible, assign a static ip

 

[konichiwa]

format c:

 

[AndyHui]

Get rid of SCSI devices

 

[Rockogre]

Go to the refridgerator and get a beer and drink it and then Light up a smoke! That helps me! LOL!

 

[John]

Kill the startup group

 

[AlphaIVT]

howw ould i clear the config and autoexec? is there an option that will do it automatically? so i don't got to do it manually?

 

[Pennstate]

you just delete them. Windows doesn't need them

 

[Sundog]

Boy, some big hitters in this thread!!!!!!!!:Q

 

[Whitedog]

Hibernate.

Takes my computer 10 seconds to bootup.

 

[oldfart]

Check your msdos.sys file. You will have to uncheck the read only box to make changes. The Options section should look like this:

[Options]
BootMulti=1
BootGUI=1
DoubleBuffer=1
AutoScan=1
WinVer=4.10.2222
DrvSpace=0
DblSpace=0
DisableLog=1 <--------Speeds up boot (don't put these comments in!)
Logo=0 <--------Speeds up boot
Network=0 <--------Speeds up boot

 

[AlphaIVT]

should i put in &quot;network=0&quot; because that option isn't there.

 

[oldfart]

That is the option that logs you in without having to click the button (if you have MS networking installed). If you don't you don't need it.

 

[AlphaIVT]

howq about &quot;Disablelog&quot; I dont' got that one there either.