Why does my XP take so many 'slides' to boot?

Anything happen when you tick the Driver Delay box on the left?

I'd research all the processes there to see what they are for. Then determine if you need them loading up on a boot up. If not, stop them and perhaps get them started from a batch file you run once you've logged on.

Perhaps check you have the latest IDE/SATA drivers and also latest BIOS?
 
So your graphic showing a time period of between 31 and 70 seconds? Disk read starts at 31 seconds which is too long.

Have you disabled USB legacy in BIOS? It was the one that caused a long delay before Windows booted up.
 
MarcLister said:
Anything happen when you tick the Driver Delay box on the left?

I'd research all the processes there to see what they are for. Then determine if you need them loading up on a boot up. If not, stop them and perhaps get them started from a batch file you run once you've logged on.

Perhaps check you have the latest IDE/SATA drivers and also latest BIOS?
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Nope, the drive delay box is empty.

I have tried a bootup with no startup programs and it reduced it from 13 'slides' to 12 and a half.

I'll check for latest SATA drivers etc, thanks.

Also, I know for sure what everything is that runs in the background and on startup :)

barnettgs said:
So your graphic showing a time period of between 31 and 70 seconds? Disk read starts at 31 seconds which is too long.

Have you disabled USB legacy in BIOS? It was the one that caused a long delay before Windows booted up.
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Yep, absolutely nothing before 31 seconds :(

I'll disable USB legacy and see what happens.

Thanks,
Craig.
 
Well half a slide improvement is better than nothing. Moving in the right direction and all.

Have you tried turning everything off just to see if that does speed up the boot at all?
 
The half a slide improvement was when I disabled all programs in the startup list.

I'll see what happens if I disable all services this time :)
 
BIOS POST (detects RAM, HDDs etc), BIOS then lists my ports and tells me that SMART is on etc. XP boot screen is shown.

I guess the 31 seconds of no activity according to Bootvis is the extra slidey bars I get?

I just removed NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.pf from the Prefetch and it booted in 5 and a half slides, but then took a bit longer to load my startup items... so maybe the difference in 'slides' between mine and my Dads PC is something to do with the Prefetch?

Maybe that also explains why my Dads PC takes quite a bit longer than mine to start all his background programs... although he does have 15-21 icons in the bottom right + a lot more running in the background, so I'm not sure.
 
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Got a stopwatch? Time the slideys and see how long they last.

Got to be honest with you and say this is getting perplexing! And to think at any moment someone could turn up, post something and it'll be fixed.

:o
 
23 seconds for slideys.

Maybe that explains the ~30 seconds of nothing before my processes start? Although the slides don't differ that much (8 seconds).
 
Hmm from what I know about the slideys its all stuff to do with loading Windows. So either its Windows stuff like drivers/processes etc or the hard disk perhaps.

How is the hard disk at the moment? Working fine? Sorry for asking all these questions. I'm just trying to eliminate unlikely sources of the error.
 
No problem :)

Hard drive is perfect, coming up to two months old. Still working at full speed and 100% SMART health :)

Although I don't think it's anything to do with the actual hardware as my old PC (similar spec to my Dads) and my brothers PC (also similar spec to my Dads) also did about 13-16 slides for bootup :confused:
 
I just went and checked my Dads registry Prefetch settings and found the following key was set to 5... default is 3.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher.REG_DWORD.5

The default is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher.REG_DWORD.3

So I decided to set it to 5 on mine.

Slides: 5 and a little (quarter or something)

When it came to loa

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My keyboard interrupted me by pressing ALT+S :p

As I was saying... When it came to loading my startup applications it took quite a bit longer... I noticed my Dads and sister's partners startup time at the desktop (when applications load) takes quite a lot longer than mine, I just assumed that was down to them having more on startup.

Not sure what my sister's partner's prefetch settings are on, but I assume the registry value is also 5.

Problem sorted... I think (gonna keep my prefetch settings at default, I'd prefer more slides than longer 'desktop startup' :))

Still a little confused as to why my processes only start after 30 seconds, I guess that 30 seconds is driver startup and hardware detection. :confused:

Craig.
 
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When my Prefetch settings are the same as my Dads I do only go through 5 and a half slides, but then when it comes to the desktop loading (my background applications) it takes quite a bit longer.

I guess my bootup of ~13 slides is normal for my configuration then :confused:

Well, I'm glad I've sorted out why I get a bit over double the slides compared to my Dads PC, but I think I'll stick to having more slides + a quicker desktop boot time :)

Thanks for your help MarcLister :)

Thanks,
Craig.
 
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I just did a shutdown & turn on to check and my computer takes about 1.5 slides (I assume you're talking about how many times that blue thing goes from one end to the other) :o

My computer is far from fast by todays standards too, and it's not like i've done much to Windows :confused:
 
Fillado said:
I just did a shutdown & turn on to check and my computer takes about 1.5 slides (I assume you're talking about how many times that blue thing goes from one end to the other) :o

My computer is far from fast by todays standards too, and it's not like i've done much to Windows :confused:
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Could you go to Start>regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\ and tell me what the EnablePrefetcher value is please?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
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