XP Question: Booting time

[secretanchitman]

I'm running a P2 300 with 256 MBs of ram and a 30 gig HDrive. I have a partition of C: Win2k and Win XP Home, both load up perfectly and there is no problems. But, when I boot to XP, it loads real real slow and i have to wait just about as long as the Win2k boot up. What are some ways to speed up the process of booting to Win2k and Win XP Home?😕

 

[zsouthboy]

A fast 7200 rpm hard drive will help, as will a proc upgrade 🙂

But, you are talking about speeding it up by getting rid of unnessary stuff in boot up, try defragging first, then play in the registry and turn off all the crap you don't need.

Sorry if my advice seems vague. 🙂

zs

 

[secretanchitman]

I have a 7200 rpm 30 gig thats made from IBM. And I deleted the programs that I don't use. Some people are telling me that i should cancel the floppy drive checking thing that the computer does when you start the comp up.

 

[Saltin]

Bastula: You are looking for a program named bootvis.exe.
It will optimize your XP system for boot time, and you can also use it to runa "boot trace" which will allow you to see exactly what is going on during the boot up process. Using this info you may be able to further refine your system and boot a little faster.
Run a search for it on Microsoft.com, it's a tiny file.

 

[Aenygma]

I can't help you much either, but it's not just your PC specs.

I have a 1400 AMD
768MEGS
7200RPM drive

and I take 1 minute 10 seconds to boot.

I used to boot up in 98se in 35 seconds... so this really was not a happy thing here.

I have tried boot vis... it did nothing for me.