"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:2007-04-11
Member since:2005-07-20
OH GOD, MY EYES!
Please, please, please, download the newest Firefox and use the built-in spell check. Ye-gads. I swear, that made me lose brain-cells. And I know this makes me a bit of a jerk, but after reading that and seeing the phrase "maybe I should write a guide or something." ... oh my, you mean pages of writing like that? I want to shoot myself! >.< (Yeah yeah, mod me down for being anal about it, but it's rude to write that way, it shows a complete disrespect for everyone who will ever see what you wrote.)
Now, that aside: Why would you bother using something that you have to go through so much trouble to configure?
Mind you, I do that for the sake of doing it all the time, as well as stupid things like getting XP small enough to run on 24MB or RAM or whatnot... but... if someone has to break windows to get a comparable boot-up time to old XP on hardware that's twice as fast (XP at first release would boot up on my Pentium III-866 with SCSI-U160 and 512MB memory in around 13 seconds with a fresh install.)... ok, correction, 3-5 times as fast... well, it seems there is something rather wrong there?
Why the hell can't Microsoft just set all non-required services to manual, then make them actually start when you try to use them (on every version of windows I've tried... if you set print spooler to manual it will never start again unless you start it from services.msc yourself, while most others will do what they are supposed to.)
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2007-04-11
I had to register just to ask you WTF have you done to make it boot in 10s???