Windows startup

[magicman]

I currently have nearly 80 processes running from startup, and all of them are legitimate programs that I use, not useless stuff or spyware programs. I know for a fact that the hard drive is the bottleneck, with all processes trying to load at the same time. Is there a way to make one process completely load before moving on to the next one? I know that would help with my boot times, which at the moment are over 2 minutes.

 

[computermaineack]

You may be able to control it from the control panel, otherwise, try this free program: http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml.

 

[magicman]

The program you suggested looks like it's only designed to enable or disable startup processes. Well, that can be done quite easily with "msconfig" or "services.msc". What I want is to prevent the multitasking requirements of the hard drive, which at the moment, are quite high.

 

[computermaineack]

Well, that's the closest thing I've found to what you want.

 

[magicman]

Maybe I should have been a bit clearer then. I require all the programs that do run on startup to run, but I'd like them to load asynchronously, one after the other. If anyone knows of a program to do that, I'd appreciate it. To be honest, if the program was able to create a boot order as well, that'd be great, since a lot of my internet-related programs load before the internet has kicked in, meaning I have to manually connect each of them.

 

[UltraDude]

If you go to run and type 'msconfig' and turn off all those upwanted programs on startup!

Not sure about priority on startup items though. But if you close startup items you can always turn them on again later

 

[apj101]

I currently have nearly 80 processes running from startup, and all of them are legitimate programs that I use, not useless stuff or spyware programs. I know for a fact that the hard drive is the bottleneck, with all processes trying to load at the same time. Is there a way to make one process completely load before moving on to the next one? I know that would help with my boot times, which at the moment are over 2 minutes.

a) I doubt its your hdd causing the problem
b) I doubt you are using all the processess/services loading a boot
c) They already load async
d) For a bit more control of startup order/delay between startup items booting look into http://www.tech-pro.net/startup-organizer.html

 

[magicman]

a) I doubt its your hdd causing the problem

Maybe I was quick to blame "Ol' Sparky" there.

b) I doubt you are using all the processess/services loading a boot

It's hard to believe, but I've tried to narrow it down, but due to the number of peripheral devices, software and whatnot I haven't been able to reduce it any further, without losing functionality that I want to keep.

c) They already load async

I didn't know that. I was under the impression that while all processes weren't started at the same moment, there was some overlap.

d) For a bit more control of startup order/delay between startup items booting look into http://www.tech-pro.net/startup-organizer.html

Thanks, that has helped a little, at least to change the boot order.

I guess what you're saying is that Windows boot procedures are as efficient as they're going to be, and the only way to reduce boot times is to cut back on software boots.

 

[OvenMaster]

I remember reading about this very issue when XP was being introduced. Win 9x/Me had programs and services load up one at a time when booting. Microsoft XP design teams decided to speed things up by loading things simultaneously, rather than consecutively. It's an OS thing... that can't really be disabled. Only way to speed this up would be to cut back on programs loaded, as you say.
Tom