Hey this worked great for me UNTIL I got to the IDE/ATA/ATAPI controller, (7) on this email. #9 has both grayed out, can you help? Ray Whitmoyer - The Repair Center -----Original Message----- From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 11:55 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [PCBUILD] XP boot speed-up 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. ----------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------- Hope it works for you - it sure worked on the slow booter I described above. Ian Porter Computer Guys Inc. Arrowtown New Zealand [log in to unmask] The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com