KingManon Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 Hi guys! I am interesting in making my windows boot _fast_ as the installation will be used on a htpc. What and how do you go about making windows boot super fast? TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypoxiaicon Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 The boot process on Windows XP replys greatly on the Hard Disk when booting up. So, according to that - At 10K Western Digital SATA Drive Would be Recommended. Something to add which i have noticed; When you have just installed XP, Defragment the Disk straight away, i may be wrong. But this does seem to make the System load up slightly faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingManon Posted June 20, 2004 Author Share Posted June 20, 2004 I was thinking more in the line of "hey man, download this great tool, it let's you disable all the junk in windows, making it startup in two nanoseconds" or "hey just go to this url and disable all the services listed there and delete this and that" :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markko Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 I was thinking more in the line of "hey man, download this great tool, it let's you disable all the junk in windows, making it startup in two nanoseconds" or "hey just go to this url and disable all the services listed there and delete this and that" :) If that existed, wouldnt we be all using it? If you want to help speed up startup, get rid of unnessecary programs starting up with the computer. Run -> msconfig -> Startup tab Works for me quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingManon Posted June 20, 2004 Author Share Posted June 20, 2004 I just mean that for a htpc there is no need for the calculator or paint is there? That was a silly example I know, but i guess you get the general idea.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xer34 Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 :huh: Dont know about making windows boot fast. Linux on the other hand. Theyve been able to almost have an instant on right? And I thought good ol Lieberman Tech was able to do this with their puRAM or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogri Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 microsoft have a quick boot toll which speeds things up by maybe 10 seconds in som ecases ill try n find a link to it brb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogri Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypoxiaicon Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 About Bootvis.exeBootvis.exe is a performance tracing and visualization tool that Microsoft designed to help PC system designers and software developers identify performance issues for boot/resume timing while developing new PC products or supporting software. Please note that Bootvis.exe is not a tool that will improve boot/resume performance for end users. Contrary to some published reports, Bootvis.exe cannot reduce or alter a system's boot or resume performance. The boot optimization routines invoked by Bootvis.exe are built into Windows XP. These routines run automatically at pre-determined times as part of the normal operation of the operating system. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/syspe...ot/bootvis.mspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogri Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 hehe also whilst looking i found this http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1073275497/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingManon Posted June 20, 2004 Author Share Posted June 20, 2004 Thanks you guys, will look into it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 cool gonna try it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnmnky Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Sheesh, listen to hypoxiaicon. *Cool I'll try it too..... It's a chocolate tea-pot!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 i'm sorry if i have offended your primate personality aka stfu already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypoxiaicon Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Stop being so hostile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnmnky Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Slimy, How exactly do you offend a personality? Tell you what, go read Keldryn's avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogri Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 bootvis is part of xp thats why they supply it as a download to the people that hear about it. why not have it run as a resource every week built into windows. hmmmmmmmmmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 use tunexp from driverheaven, my pc boots in liek 15 seconds :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnmnky Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Thanks Kiwi, I knocked 2 seconds of my boot time, and 10 seconds off my "Getting to desktop" time. the stats..... Without: 48 seconds Get to windows, 49 seconds extra. With: 46 seconds Get to windows 39 seconds. These are all cold boot average times (out of 3) and then the getting to windows time was taken on the third time. They seem slow, but trust me I would have guessed "30 seconds to boot up" if I hadn't timed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 use tunexp from driverheaven, my pc boots in liek 15 seconds :) great program :D not only for booting :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted June 23, 2004 MVC Share Posted June 23, 2004 Really 10 whole seconds, man how sweet is that - you ROCK!!! Lets see with the time you wasted figuring out last century's newb thing to do, and being - well being a D_CK to someone trying to help. And then rebooting your box multiple times to time it - man is your life that boring, that you have nothing better to do than time how long it takes for you computer to boot up?? And to see if you can shave a couple of seconds off it?? I would estimate that it will only take you about 2 or 3 months worth of rebooting to get that time back, at 10 seconds a reboot. ;) That is if you sit there waiting for it to start every time. Here's a hint - don't reboot your machine unless require for hardware changes or software updates, and you will have instant access - lets see takes maybe what 2 seconds for the screen to pop on, and you would be good to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigapixels Veteran Posted June 23, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 23, 2004 Really 10 whole seconds, man how sweet is that - you ROCK!!!Lets see with the time you wasted figuring out last century's newb thing to do, and being - well being a D_CK to someone trying to help. And then rebooting your box multiple times to time it - man is your life that boring, that you have nothing better to do than time how long it takes for you computer to boot up?? And to see if you can shave a couple of seconds off it?? I would estimate that it will only take you about 2 or 3 months worth of rebooting to get that time back, at 10 seconds a reboot. ;) That is if you sit there waiting for it to start every time. Here's a hint - don't reboot your machine unless require for hardware changes or software updates, and you will have instant access - lets see takes maybe what 2 seconds for the screen to pop on, and you would be good to go! I second that! My computer's never off unless it needs to be restarted. And that really isn't turning it off if you think about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R-Style Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...ppowertoys.mspx Powertoys wil also speed up your PC. when you have XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted June 23, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 23, 2004 Use bootvis to get a list of files that are loaded during bootup. Find out which files are absolutely unnecessary and unregister/remove them. Though if something goes wrong, you're likely screwed, so keep a list of all the files you remove (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...ppowertoys.mspxPowertoys wil also speed up your PC. when you have XP no they won't they are just enhancers not performance related programs :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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