Boot up Question

[wnied]

Hey Everyone

Recently I loaded Windows 98SE onto a friends computer and booted it. Other than it taking the normal amount of time for Windows to get its a$$ moving, there seemed to be a 10-15 second delay where the hard drive just simply stopped spinning and nothing was loading up. I know most Windows OSes have a delay somewhere, that you can adjust in some folder or another...Can anyone remind me of which file or folder I have to adjust in the registry to stop this annoying Windows feature....

Pleeeeaaaaaassseee!
Thanks a bunch!
wnied

 

[AKA]

Dont recall any such feature. Other than to enable the bios for fast boot.

 

[FOBSIDE]

i dont recall such a feature either. my friends machine does the same thing. i reset it manually like 4 times before realizing that his boot is just really slow.

 

[hominid skull]

If the computer in question has a network card then it might be windows trying to opbtain an IP address automatically, check the TCP/IP settings for the Network card to find out - you can always specify an IP address to speed it up.

 

[wnied]

Theres some sort of delay built into the hkey\localmachine\shell setting somewhere, i learned it in Networking class, but I can't remember exactly what it is. Has to do with the boot up process...

Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?
wnied

 

[KGB]

Mr. Skull is correct.
Take your network settings off of "obtain IP address automatically" and specify an IP address.

A good way to tell if this is the cause of the slow-down is to watch the activity on your NIC LEDs while it appears to hang.

 

[jimmygates]

I believe Windows is trying to find an IP address from a DHCP server. You can either, a) give the network card an IP address or b) turn off "find IP address automatically" under your network card's properties.





-Jimbo