not so fast boot up

[MidNiteMysT]

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: MidNiteMysT
cleared the prefetch and tried it out. as well as edit an option or two in bios. took about 15 seconds off my boot time. yay!

Actually, no it didn't. I'm wrong and clearing the prefetch folder did not help your boot time. I thought I was correct and when you timed it you even had me convinced.

However, according to this guy we are both wrong:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1709252&enterthread=y

:roll:

well before clearing my prefetch, i ran a google, and i saw some pages to recommend clearing it. it said it wont help boot times if you use the same programs over and over and your habits havent changed. but if you used to use, lets say, photoshop kinda programs and stuff like that, but now you run games or do other things, it does help to clear your prefetch.

 

[MidNiteMysT]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX

Originally posted by: MidNiteMysT

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
What transfer mode does your hard drive run as?

how can i find that out?

Sorry for taking so long to respond. At the run prompt type "devmgmt.msc" to go to device manager. Then look under IDE controllers (assuming you're running an ide hard drive) and look under either the primary or secondary controller (whichever you're hard drive is on), double-click on one, and go to advanced settings. The transfer mode should be listed. If its set as PIO then try to set it to DMA if available.

np. i have a SATA hard drive. but i checked the ide settings and its set at what you said. so i guess my cd roms are running as they should be. is there a way to check the sata transfer mode? i saw something bios about sata ahci mode tho. im not sure if to enable it or not.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

I personally haven't had experience with a sata drive. Sorry. 🙁

 

[rs1089]

search for "diskeeper" (its not misspelled) and downlaod the trial version of the professional edition. its a disk defreagmenter thats better than the one that comes with xp. just use it and defrag ur hard drive. It will compact all ur files and allocate them so that they are as contiguous as possible. It should cut down the start up time, particularly when the xp boot logo shows up and loads. hope this helps 😛

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: MidNiteMysT

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: MidNiteMysT
cleared the prefetch and tried it out. as well as edit an option or two in bios. took about 15 seconds off my boot time. yay!

Actually, no it didn't. I'm wrong and clearing the prefetch folder did not help your boot time. I thought I was correct and when you timed it you even had me convinced.

However, according to this guy we are both wrong:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1709252&enterthread=y

:roll:

well before clearing my prefetch, i ran a google, and i saw some pages to recommend clearing it. it said it wont help boot times if you use the same programs over and over and your habits havent changed. but if you used to use, lets say, photoshop kinda programs and stuff like that, but now you run games or do other things, it does help to clear your prefetch.

Just understand exactly what benefit you're gaining by clearing your Prefetch folder. Your first reboot after clearing the folder will be significantly faster, but subsequent reboots will be slower and eventually plateau as the Prefetch folder is restored. Clearing the Prefetch folder also slows down application start up times, so it's a trade-off.

 

[Smilin]

Yeah, clearing it doesn't do much for me. With the exception of games that rotate in about once a month my prefetch folder stays nearly static. I've only cleared it once or twice in the three years since this install. At that time it was all populated with crap for tasks I was moving over to another machine.

 

[Phoenix86]

What makes you think a 1:07 is long... That's perfectly normal. You said "maybe I overlooked something" well, that would imply there is a problem. I see no problem.

You can always load less drivers or services on startup, but I don't recommend it. You don't like the "standard" answer to use hibernation, not really sure what can be done for you.

 

[MidNiteMysT]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
What makes you think a 1:07 is long... That's perfectly normal. You said "maybe I overlooked something" well, that would imply there is a problem. I see no problem.

You can always load less drivers or services on startup, but I don't recommend it. You don't like the "standard" answer to use hibernation, not really sure what can be done for you.

well, a lot of the things you are saying are answered in my previous posts. the 1 07 boot time i said was long because i seemed to hear a lot of people saying they boot up very quickly in less then 30 seconds. and the thing about hibernation to answer my question, in fact, i already said im satisfied with my boot time now so i dont need hibernation or do i need any more answers about it. i think 45 seconds is a great time and i can wait a bit. i just wanted to make sure everything was in order and everything was running optimally.

but what i still would like to know is if i should put my sata in that ahci mode.

im gonna try that diskeeper. maybe ill find a full version somewhere so i can keep using it long after the trial period. i think it would probably do a better job since the xp version of it trys to keep the microsoft products first before the others instead of optimizing the ones i use the most.