Hi Harry - I am not clear on a couple things here. Your machine should
not be doing a scan disk every time you boot into windows. If your
machine is doing this then there are a few possibilities.

Your second question about the speed  of the machine. Hard drives
basically come in two speeds, 5400 and 7200. These are speeds in
revolutions much like old records. The faster a hard drive the quicker
retrieval of information that is on the disk. When you speak of the P4
2.8 gig system you are talking about the processor speed. The processor
is the P4 also known as the CPU (central processing unit). The quicker
the processor speed the faster a program loads and implements.

Boot up time is something different. A faster processor will quicken
booting into windows but the number of programs loading when booting
into windows lengthens or shortens boot up. If you are talking about the
time it takes your machine to 'boot' then start windows then there is
nothing you can do to shorten this process.

The machine you described (the one you want to purchase) could probably
run a small country. That system will cost you a bundle but if you have
that kind of money then go for it. If you do not have that kind of money
then my suggestion is to purchase a P3 or compatible cpu.

Harry Brown wrote:

>Hi folks,
>Wanted to get this to as many as possible.
>Harry here, with 2 questions.
>1.  How can I get scan disk so it doesn't come on automatically on startup?  I went to scan disk, pressed shift+f10 then went to properties and pressed enter, and I couldn't find a box to check so, what do I do from here?
>2.  I'm considering spending a bunch of money to get a pentium 4 2.8 gig system.  I have a friend who bought a system with a 7200 RPM hard drive, and he said it only takes his system 10 seconds to boot up and it's ready to go.  That's what I want from a system, the shortest bootup time I can get.  I'm using a pentium 2 266 machine right now running windows 98SE, and 256 meg of ram.
>So, if someone knows if I can shorten up bootup time, how do I do it on this machine step by step please, and is it worth getting a p4 2.8 gig system with 1 gig of ram to get the shorter bootup time?
>thanks for any help,
>Harry
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