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  1. July 31st, 2002, 11:29 AM #1
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    Thumbs up Fix slow xp Boot times...

    For those of you who haven't stumbled on this little beauty from MS, here is a link to BootVis-Tool , 'supposedly'(always thus far ) to get boot times below 30 secs....

    BootVis.exe - Performance Visu;ization Tool for Windows XP

    Or you can find it yourself at MS downloads & look for product xp, os xp - downloads for last 12 months.....
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  2. July 31st, 2002, 12:49 PM #2
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    Have to give that one a shot and see if it lives up the expectations!
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  3. August 1st, 2002, 03:11 AM #3
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    checking it out..
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  4. August 1st, 2002, 04:02 AM #4
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    works, kinda...

    7200 rpm/s disk: without a network: 37 sec before, 25.4 sec after.
    with network: 42 sec before, 32.6 sec after.

    5400 rpm/s disk: without network: 43 sec before, 31 sec after.
    with network: 49 sec before, 37 sec after.
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  5. August 1st, 2002, 04:13 AM #5
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    Originally posted by Sneakers
    works, kinda...
    What did you expect?? This is MS after all

    At least you got some seconds saved .... you can remember me every time you boot now ... if only for a moment -literally!!
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  6. August 1st, 2002, 04:15 AM #6
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    hmmm p4s533 with a willamette celeron 1.7 with network - 20 secs to desktop from cold boot with out that - is it worth me trying that?
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  7. August 1st, 2002, 09:57 AM #7
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    Originally posted by NooNoo
    hmmm p4s533 with a willamette celeron 1.7 with network - 20 secs to desktop from cold boot with out that - is it worth me trying that?
    Showoff!!! :P
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  8. August 1st, 2002, 10:10 AM #8
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    Question

    Anyone else got a 'better' tool , I mean can anyone give me a link to a tool that actually identifies the slooooow services rather than just 'kinda' fixing it...
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  9. August 4th, 2002, 11:18 AM #9
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    I got a fix, try 95 on that machine noonoo.
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  10. August 6th, 2002, 07:57 PM #10
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    This is a darn good link. Good find. I sent the link off to my friends and my boss.
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  11. August 6th, 2002, 09:57 PM #11
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    Originally posted by NooNoo
    hmmm p4s533 with a willamette celeron 1.7 with network - 20 secs to desktop from cold boot with out that - is it worth me trying that?
    Wow! 20 seconds to desktop from cold boot? That's definately an amazing number NooNoo. I'm just curious about a couple things though. Do you have your PC set to automatically logon? If not, then did those 20 seconds to desktop include you typing in a logon password? What are you display settings? Was that boot time measurement ended before ALL resources were finished loading? Or after? What did you use to measure that speed? What was your BIOS Post time? That number is just so incredible, that I would just like to know what your secret is. I'm truly blown away by that.
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  12. August 11th, 2002, 02:18 AM #12
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    Try this also,

    START/RUN/type "MSCONFIG"/click on START UP tab/
    and remove ticks from applications you don't need to load when starting windows.
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  13. August 13th, 2002, 03:55 AM #13
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    Mine boots in about 30 secs unless I have my Cable modem plugged in, then it can boot in 30 secs or not boot at all (hangs on the windows XP timer). Haven't got a clue why?
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  14. August 13th, 2002, 04:34 AM #14
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    Originally posted by WebHawg


    Wow! 20 seconds to desktop from cold boot? That's definately an amazing number NooNoo. I'm just curious about a couple things though. Do you have your PC set to automatically logon? If not, then did those 20 seconds to desktop include you typing in a logon password? What are you display settings? Was that boot time measurement ended before ALL resources were finished loading? Or after? What did you use to measure that speed? What was your BIOS Post time? That number is just so incredible, that I would just like to know what your secret is. I'm truly blown away by that.
    Its now 23 seconds.... I added a bootable scsi card....

    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 !
    Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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  15. August 13th, 2002, 06:12 AM #15
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    I'll check it out..
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