"Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those possible with Windows XP? Something obviously went awry. As Computerworld is reporting, a number of Vista users are none too happy about Vista boot-up times. Some are questioning whether Microsoft is advocating that users just put Vista into sleep mode, as opposed to shutting down systems on a daily basis, to mask the sluggish boot up."
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Member since:2005-07-13
about 12 regestry entires, disable system restore, lots of changes to ms config and dissableling unneccesary start up services, and changing windows ability to manage memory so on start up it allocates as much as it wants to the start up process for windows specific components, and making usre u dont have a lot (any) software that starts up with windows....maybe i should post a guid..... hmmm
Member since:2005-08-07
I use XP on my laptop (got a PCMCIA wifi card that hates Linux and I'm too cheap to buy a new one quite yet) and I'm thrilled to get my boot to the login screen in thirty seconds, never mind the time it takes to login and start the background apps until the desktop is completely loaded.
All told it probably takes me about a full minute and a half.
Which isn't bad-- I've seen people with faster machines get slower boots.
But this is after I've tricked it out as much as I can and I'm more or less against the wall here... What else can I be doing to improve this situation? Perhaps check on a faster RPM hard disk?
Or are you using Microsoft Bootvis? I've been staying away from that app ever since I had it consistently eating my Windows install. I know it was that app because I could restore from image and go along merrily as you please, but the moment I tried to use that program it killed my system every time. Something about service pack two I think because I never had this problem in service pack one.
--bornagainpenguin
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2005-07-13
while 15 seconds isnt bad it sure isnt good. after tweaking my XP install i can get it to boot to being fully useable and ready to go in oder 7 seconds (that is after bios) and with bios about a 10 second boot total time. vista has ne excuse...