Fix slow xp Boot times...

I didn't time the "before and after", but a reduction in bootup time was noticeable.

This was on a PII 350, 768 Mb PC100 RAM, 4x20 7200RPM hard drives on a Promise controller under WinXP Pro.

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Originally posted by NooNoo


Its now 23 seconds.... I added a bootable scsi card.... :D :D

Resolution : 1280x1024 on an ATI 7200 ve

The bios/post time is very quick indeed - it speaks to you saying the bios loaded sucessfully and is now booting from the os... by the time it finishes saying that it the black win xp screen has already had 3 sets of blue blips going acrosss...

Measured the time by looking at a second hand on a watch...

OH BTW, I just bought my mother exactly the same hardware and put 98 on it - 98 still takes 40 seconds to load, put XP on and bam, down to 20 again.


Seems this hardware luvvvvs XP !

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Well damn! I'd have to see that to truly believe it (especially with your res set to 1280x1024 on an ATI 7200 ve.) There ARE ways to measure your exact uptime without having to use a stopwatch, but you gotta tweak your reg, etc. so I've never done anything like that (I'm a big fan of "default" settings. I'm afraid of regedit :eek: ) But if that truly is your time from "cold to desktop" then I must say, I am truly impressed and shocked. That's almost faster than the bootup time on my M100 PDA (that was a joke,.. hardy harr harr. There essentially is NO boot up time on a PDA in case anyone didn't get that.) :D

Awhile ago I had to load win 3.11 on a relatively new pc (don't ask why cuz its a long story) The whole bootup process took about 4 sec from hitting the switch to a fully loaded desktop. Nice, Fast, and Absolutely Useless in modern computing.

I think what noonoo's trying to show is that if you've got everything set up right and your system's humming, XP boots fast enough. My sister in law loaded kazaa on my pc which killed the boot time (1 min+). After alot of hunting and some passes with ad-aware I got it back down to respectable speeds too. It's all about the hardware baby!

Thanks I needed that.

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Originally posted by gtiseb
I think what noonoo's trying to show is that if you've got everything set up right and your system's humming, XP boots fast enough. My sister in law loaded kazaa on my pc which killed the boot time (1 min+). After alot of hunting and some passes with ad-aware I got it back down to respectable speeds too. It's all about the hardware baby!

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You should've loaded in Kazaa Lite (www.kazaalite.com). It's Kazaa but with all the spyware removed. :thumbs:

My system boots to desktop from cold boot in 15-18 seconds.
System Specs
Asus A7n266E
Athlon XP 1700+
512mb DDR pc2100
Quantum Fireball AS 40gb ATA100
Windows XP Pro
Cable modem using DHCP thru NIC

Without BootVIS!!!

I have tried BootVIS on other system with same specs and it actually slowed boot time.
Yet another system with just different Mobo system boots in 40secs , after bootVIS it boots in 29.

BootVIS works but boot time mostly dependent on Motherboard and hard drive used.

my amd duron 700 with 384 mb ram and 40gb hard drive with ECS K7VZA mobo will boot cold to desktop in about 17-21 seconds

35 Secs on a netwoked P4B 266 2Gig
seems fast enough for me :-)

Mine takes about 20 seconds.. now if you take away the drawn out 'functional' RAID array message. your talking 10-15 seconds..

AMD Palimino 1.667Ghz
256MB DDR 333 RAM
Geforce 4400(PNY)

Its fine for me.


I don't have any other suggestions for you.. sometime in the bios you can uncheck a couple things to speed it up.

Doesn't work!

I got a WD 5400 30gig HD on a highpoint370 raid card at ATA100, and the utikity claims, once booted up that it can't find any boot devices to optimise.

Any one got an answer? or do I have to put it back onto the main IDE, run the speed up util and then put it back onto the ATA controller?:confused:

My Sys
AMD 1700XP
256 DDR 2100
FIC AD11
Maxtor 5400 20 gig
No Modem installed
Kingston 10/100 nic
geforce2 440MX 64 meg ddr {suspected Ram Issue}
Fresh Install Of XP Pro

Before Tool Was Installed,, 30 seconds,, From Pressing The Power Button To Desktop
After The Tool Was Installed And Optimization Run,, Still 30 seconds From Press Of Power Button To Desktop.
Guess This Ones Good As It Gets :)

No kidding about that raid card... I have a scsi card and it posts for what seems and eternity.

nick