How to make Windows boot faster?

MarcLister · 4 Aug 2007 at 21:22

You could download nLite or vLite and remove the rubbish from XP/Vista that you don't use/need. This is quite a drastic move as you'd have to reinstall Windows but removing stuff that Windows has to load up on a boot up should reduce the boot time a fair bit.

willhub · 4 Aug 2007 at 21:25

Anyone have any idea why sata drives are so slow? mine is transfering files at 4.0MB/SEC here...

MarcLister · 4 Aug 2007 at 21:26

What are you using to get that figure? I'll download that prog, if its free and see what I get from my WD SATA2 250Gb disk.

willhub · 4 Aug 2007 at 21:27

MarcLister said:
What are you using to get that figure? I'll download that prog, if its free and see what I get from my WD SATA2 250Gb disk.

I was transfering a file from one partition to the other, and it was going at 4.0MB/Sec.

MarcLister · 4 Aug 2007 at 21:28

Oh right. Might be influenced by RAM and RAM speed and other things. Thought you'd used HDTach or something to obtain a proper measure of transfer speed. (Hint hint!)

willhub · 4 Aug 2007 at 21:34

MarcLister said:
Oh right. Might be influenced by RAM and RAM speed and other things. Thought you'd used HDTach or something to obtain a proper measure of transfer speed. (Hint hint!)

HDTune :

Dont get why it is showing the buffer as 0kb :confused:

I dont know if I should be using the jumpers on the HDD tho.

It aint my ram, that is running at 4-4-4-15, 1000Mhz, showing speed as 4321MB/Sec from MemTest86 before boot.

MarcLister · 4 Aug 2007 at 21:45

With my WD 250GB I got a minimum of 32.5Mb, max of 58.7 and an average of 50.3. Access time of 13.5ms, burst speed of 121Mb/sec and cpu usage of 12.1%.

Incidentally have you looked at the FAQs on http://www.hdtune.com/faq.html.

willhub · 4 Aug 2007 at 21:58

MarcLister said:
With my WD 250GB I got a minimum of 32.5Mb, max of 58.7 and an average of 50.3. Access time of 13.5ms, burst speed of 121Mb/sec and cpu usage of 12.1%.

Incidentally have you looked at the FAQs on http://www.hdtune.com/faq.html.

Nothing on the FAQs that was of help for me.

MarcLister · 4 Aug 2007 at 21:59

OK. So you running Vista? Got the latest drivers for your mobo?

willhub · 4 Aug 2007 at 22:00

MarcLister said:
OK. So you running Vista? Got the latest drivers for your mobo?

I havent installed any drivers, never thought I did need to for Vista since I dont see any for Vista, I installed all the updated, but Sata controller failed to isntall.