Boot XP Quicker - Advanced Help

bluetech · 29 Mar 2007 at 23:46

Hi there. I am wondering why it is that XP slowly slows down with boot times. I have done the following to try and get it back to "2 scrolls":

1) Update all drivers
2) run defrag c: /b @ the command prompt
3) Disable all unnessessary startup programs and services using msconfig

What else is there left to do. It is a little frustrating that you have a great PC:

-CoolerMaster Ammo 533 Aluminum (No PSU) - Silver
-Antec TruePower Trio 550W PSU
-Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
-Intel Core 2 DUO E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
-Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
-GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC)
-BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
-Western Digital Caviar RE 320GB 3200YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
-Western Digital Caviar RE 320GB 3200YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
-Western Digital Caviar RE 160GB 1600YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
-Sony AW-G170AB2 18x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer - (Black) OEM

With the CPU @ 3.0 GHz, and still have to wait for XP, running those loading bars accross about 6 times... in the first few weeks on the fresh install it was one and a bit.

Any ideas?

Thanks Guys!

ollie CUP · 29 Mar 2007 at 23:48

could try ms bootvis.. iirc that cuts it down a tad

manjuice · 29 Mar 2007 at 23:49

Try registry cleaners and defrags.
Hint: "Registry Mechanic"

Drazic · 29 Mar 2007 at 23:52

I changed my boot timing reg tweak and then delets loads of file, 2 reboot and a doubble defraged chnage it

bluetech · 30 Mar 2007 at 00:13

tchan_4 said:
Try registry cleaners and defrags.
Hint: "Registry Mechanic"

Registry cleaners... big no. In my eyes they can do more harm then good. I've checked all of the start up stuff in the registry and it all looks good.

manjuice · 30 Mar 2007 at 00:16

Up to you

sWiZzLe · 30 Mar 2007 at 00:20

XP-Antispy - disable network crawling as well as services and stuff you may not need.

t31os · 30 Mar 2007 at 00:34

Boot times will increase as you add more, this is effected by startup items, registry entries, services, onboard devices..... and other things... lots of USB devices for example.

It will get slower as you add more, it happens.... unless you do some serious tewaking, but then thats proberly going to require disabling a lot of things, things you might need or use.

Check the net for registry or startup tweaking, and just defrag often, pretty much all you can do, leave the PC on more and setup power saving options if it really bugs you.

Psypher5 · 30 Mar 2007 at 00:57

Device manager

IDE ata/atapi controllers

Primary > right click > properties > advance settings tab > device type = none.

Same for secondary.

Reboot.

One and a bit?

Mine didnt even get the little blue bar to show more than two/three blocks before it boots