twolves90

Hello. I'm on my build that's in my sig

It usually takes 1-2 minutes for XP to fully start once the power button is hit, and I'm curious if there is anything that can be done to shorten this time.

Thank you

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holdenssx

Use MSCONFIG, and disable unnecessary startup programs. (Start->Run->msconfig)

OvenMaster

"rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

What ProcessIdleTasks does is update the Layout.ini in the prefetch folder with the .pf
entries that are in the folder, then runs the command line Defrag command with the -b switch set.
This is a subset of the full defrag and repositions only the boottime modules so they're more
efficiently read at boot time. It reads the Layout.ini file to determine the correct disk placements.

Now here's the catch: if your like me, your PC is never truely idle, so the ProcessIdleTasks
never gets run. My home PC is never idle. The PC has to be idle for about 30 minutes before
that task gets run by the Scheduler. I've confirmed this on my PC at work - the task gets run
while I'm at lunch.

The workaround for that is simple: Once every three days, I manually run the
"rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks" from Start\Run. Then I follow that up with a
full defrag because moving all those files around fragments a bunch of other files.
Make sure you use Microsofts defrag, most of the 3rd party Defragmenters don't honor the
placements in the Layout.ini file. There is one or two, but they're expensive - unless you
have the $s and know which utilities I'm talking about, then use those. Nortons SpeedDisk
is not one of them.


When I installed XP SP2, I initially had the same slowdown problem. Doing the little trick
above restored the startup speed to pre-SP2 startup times."

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Irishwhistle

As holdenssx said "msconfig".

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suziewongxxx

Do a disk clean MYCOMPUTER-DISK CLEAN this will delete temporary folders.
Do a msconfig START-RUN-"msconfig" select start up and delete those files that you do not need to start at start up - you will find that a lot of downloads sneak in there like ITunes check this on a regular basis as when the downloads are updated they sneak back in the start up. Use a Registry cleanup like REGCURE but remember to keep the deleted items in the back up section of RegCure so you can restore certain items if necessary.

Jon Boy

I messed up my computer yesterday and spent like 12 hours fixing it, in this time I spent a lot of time in bios setup. I noticed you could disable a few of the checks at the beginning, remove screens that rompt you to press del to enter bios and that, and could enable fast boot or something like that if it was not already. Will that speed things up as well and is it safe?

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