This is FWIW (for what it's worth) post:
I just ran across this tip for speeding up XP boot time. It definitely
works - I've just tried it on a pc running XP Pro, and it cut it's boot time
to almost 25% of the original.
The reason I researched it is that I had just assembled two identical XP
pc's (identical in hardware and software) and one would boot rapidly while
the other took over twice as long to get going. Just another little pc
mystery :--))
Here's the tip: (dunno who wrote it but thanks anyway, whoever you are) Two
points - it's possible it'll only work on XP Pro, and secondly it seems to
be intended for a pc with one HDD on the primary IDE port, and one or two
devices on the secondary IDE port. Here's the link:
http://www.geocities.com/my_win_xp/tweaks.htm
Note that I've rewritten the original, as I found that it didn't fit with
what I saw on my screen.
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1. Open notepad.exe, type
del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q
& save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\
2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc".
3. Double click Computer Configuration in the right window.
3a. Still in right pane, double click Windows Settings, ditto Scripts, ditto
Shutdown.
4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file
& click "Open".
5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.
6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".
7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".
9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn't
have 'device type' greyed out, select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click
"OK".
10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat
step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.
WindowsXP should now boot much faster.
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Hope it works for you - it sure worked on the slow booter I described above.
Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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