How to make your computer boot faster???

[Zclyh3]

I have a roommate that's been competing with me to see who has the fastest boot time. I currently am running an 1800+ with my 4.3GHB HARD UDMA 33 to start up XP. I know that's really slow. His specs are an Athlon 1.4GHz and a Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm with Win98. How can I make it boot faster than him?

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND that I'm have an Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 SCSI card and a Seagate Cheetah X15 36LP 15,000rpm 18.4GB HD. I want to use these tools to blow his ass away.

 

[nirgis]

Well the first step would be to remove all extraneous processes from the startup menu. If you mean a hardware or OS change, I have no idea

 

[Bglad]

Set your bios for fast boot so it doesn't check through the memory each time.

Then set bios to boot from your boot hard disk first so it doesn't check for a bootable floppy or bootable cd-rom first.

Then goto command line and run sysedit. Go through those files, especially autoexec.bat, win.ini and sys.ini and rem out anything unnecessary. Be careful in there so you don't delete anything you need.

 

[exp]

WinXP boot tweaks

 

[Spankthru]

If your friend wants to win on W98, then typing "msconfig" at the run prompt can shut down many startup programs.

 

[xirtam]

Personally, I think the solution is to write a few cool little programs and stick them in his startup sequence.

 

[FOBSIDE]

<< Personally, I think the solution is to write a few cool little programs and stick them in his startup sequence. >>



haha, i found that pretty funny.

 

[Miramonti]

Bootvis boot utility from microsoft can often take 10-20 seconds off the software side of xp's boot time.