Hello Harry,

Here's a way to shave some time off your computer's startup when it runs
Scandisk as part of the process.  Once Scandisk starts running, hit "x";
Scandisk will stop and the computer will go on to its next startup task.

Hope this helps.

John Luttenberger


At 11:58 11/12/2002, Harry Brown wrote:
>Hi folks,
>I thank you for responding to my quesitons about scan disk on startup.
>Right now, it takes my machine 1 minute and 34 seconds to bootup.  I want
>to shorten it to 10 seconds if possible.  My sighted friend Ed says his
>1200 meg machine boots up in 10 seconds.  Now he is using a 7200 RPM
>drive, which I'm going to also buy.
>Now, I tried the desktop key+r then typed msconfig then tabbed down and I
>couldn't find the start page.  All I found was ok cancel, apply.
>Someone needs to give me instructions or let me call them and walk me
>through this process.  Once I get this process down, I'll have it on
>paper, so I can use it when I want to take things out so the bootup
>process can be faster.
>Now, I was also told that I could go to system, and then when I get to
>system, I pressed enter, and couldn't find no page to show me the
>performance.  So, someone is gonna have to give me more instructions via
>email or better yet, let me call them and talk me through this.  I'd love
>to use the windows tutorial info that is on main menu, but don't have a
>patch cord and I can't talk as fast on to my tape recorder while it's
>talking, so one way or other, I'm gonna get this bootup time down.  If a
>sighted person can get his computer down to 10 seconds, then so should us
>blind folks.  Sighted people have alot more things load on startup than we
>do, so something is wrong on my end and I'd sure like to take stuff out of
>there.
>Harry
>
>
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