John - in msconfig the start tab is along the top of the dialog window
and at the far right. Like I said before - if you have that kind of
money to buy the things you mentioned then great, go for it. A 7200 rpm
hard disk is going to run faster then a 5400 rpm hard disk. A 1 gig
processor is also going to run faster then a 266. You need to look at
what is causing your machine to do a scan disk every time it boots into
windows.

John H. Luttenberger, III wrote:

>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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