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[nicky1]

I ever use win 98,me they are booting up so fast.
and when I switch to winXP I must wait long time before they are starting and ready to work. I not install many program on it and my comp is not too slow to run it. who has any way to make it to start more faster?

[pbrugge]

Yes that is possible and it is kinda easy to all you need is a smaal program called bootvis, it is a program from microsoft and you can find more info and the download at this location:
http://www.softpedia.../2/12-2-1.shtml

Good luck

[rowita]

Try this :

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Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for Windows XP


From faster boot times, to speeding up your current hardware, PCstats has 99 Tips to make your computer run quicker, better, and more efficiently. - Version 1.0.0

[ashiezai]

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Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for Windows XP

ouch .. that's toooo much thing that i can do with my xp ... but im like kinda lazy to browse all of them .. can u plz tell me wat is more important ?

last time my win2000 booted kinda fast n very stable .. i wonder y xp boots up that slow ...

[jamesdm]

For a better performance is general and a fast boot you need to disable Winxp services that you don't need, i don't remember website in english but i will try to find out what services can you stop to get a better performance.

[Roahl]

To make your computer (with windows xp) start faster do one or all of the following things:
- Delete from time to time all files in the Prefect directory (located in the Windows directory)
- Defragment your harddisk once in a while.
- Turn of System Restore.
- Disable the new visual styles and use that ugly grey one from previous windows.

These are not all for making windows start up faster, but also to make it run faster. You could also try to update your BIOS (I think it's called flashing?) if you do not have the latest version already. But note: don't hold me responsible for any problems whatsoever .

[solankyno1]

The links provided here looks pretty good. I am just going to check all the information provided here. Let's hope my system can be faster. There is also a tool called Tweak UI that can improve some things also. Sorry i have forgotten the link for it . Please google it.

[filipc]

Hi ,

I am not sure , but I think I can help you.

Click on Start>Run , enter "msconfig" , then go to "startup tab" and uncheck all items you don't want to start with windows.

That was help me several times , and make computer faster.

[switch]

hey everyone.

fillipc... good stuff. that's what i did to my computer after my dad told me it helped heaps. also another thing to do is in msconfig click on the services tab and, same thing, disable all the stuff you don't need. it helps heaps, but you need to be REALLY REALLY careful. and whatever you do DONT disable the services marked essential. THIS WILL KILL YOUR COMPUTER.

anyway, apart from that, this should speed up your computer a fair bit!

[joecool]

filipc, on Oct 26 2004, 07:20 PM, said:

Hi ,

I am not sure , but I think I can help you.

Click on Start>Run , enter "msconfig" , then go to "startup tab" and uncheck all items you don't want to start with windows.

That was help me several times , and make computer faster.

yeah but when i do that it always get these little popups i clicked disable all and rebooted and took longer than if everything was selected. am i doing something wrong here?

[reciter]

joecool, on Oct 27 2004, 03:40 AM, said:

yeah but when i do that it always get these little popups i clicked disable all and rebooted and took longer than if everything was selected. am i doing something wrong here?

I have also used this method repeatedly.
Possibly you may be having also unckecked the required program by mistake.

If it does not solve by this method, isn't there any other cause?
Since GUI of Windows XP is a little heavier than the conventional thing,there is a method of changing GUI into classic.If it is carried out, Window will open a bit more smoothly.

Otherwise, although that will not be right, it may be possibly infected with spyware.

[2091]

so... heres the beginners guide 4 a faster winxp... first login as administrator 2 gain all rights.

seccond click on "start/run" and type "regedit". hit "F3" and search 4 "runonce" and delete all programms u dont use in the tabs run, runonce and runservices.

so. next u got to enlarge the swapfile. rithtclick on "desktop/properties". u shuld see now the systeminformation [not the graphigs]. go to the last tab and set the swapfile to "minimum 130 and maximum 300 mb". this shuld boost your pc a little.

if u use thé symantec norton firewall or av - deinstall and get annother one. symantec is a performancekiller.

so. now hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and select the taskmanager. check wich apps are running and localize theese u dont need...

restart - finisch.
ur pc is now 20-70% faster.

[tuxlinux]

HI!!

I also was waiting a long time to my windows xp so i serached a lot and i found this programm Tewak XP.

Performance Tweaks

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Application Defrag
ASPI Drivers
Auto Delete Temporary Folder
Automate Disk Cleanup
Backup - The easy way
CD ROM Stops AutoPlaying...
Changing CD Staging Area Folder Location
Clean your prefetch to improve performance.
Clicking AVI Files on explorer causing 100% CPU Usage
Contiguous File Allocation size
Convert FAT32 To NTFS
Correcting System Hang at Startup
Decrease system loading time by changing network settings
Decrease your Applications startup time
Delete Prefetch Automatically
Disable automatic updating
Disable auto-reboot
Disable Debug Scripting in Internet Explorer
Disable Disk Cleanup
Disable Indexing Services
Disable Prefetch for low memory systems
Disable Recent Documents History
Disable Search from looking in zip (compressed) files
Disable unnecessary programs
Disable unnecessary services to free system resources
Disable XP Boot Logo
Disable zip folders
Disabling Automatic Updates properly DMA Mode on IDE Devices
Easily Disable Messenger
Easy Way to Adjust LargeSystemCache
Edit Hidden System Settings using Group Policy Editor
Enable or disable boot defrag
Fast startup /shutdown
Faster Boot-Up without tons of fonts
Faster Dual Boot Timeout
Faster startup of Windows XP
Fonts: more thereon ...
Free-up some more disk space
Fresh Install with no ACPI (updated)
Fresh install with no ACPI.
Gaming Machine: Hardware Profile to free up System Resources
Get rid of IM and no slow OE startup
Getting More Processing Power
HDD slowdown when booting
Increase speed by tweaking prefetcher settings
Increase XP NTFS performance
Intel Application Accelerator - speed up disk access
Its all about your priorities
Launch apps with desired priority setting
Make icons in windows appear quicker
Memory Performance Tweak
MFT Fragmentation
Modify application timeout
Modify auto-reboot setting
No DOZE
No more low disk space messages
NTFS Cluster size
Problems enabling DMA on IDE drives
Proformance Increase through My Computer
Reduce 10 second scandisk wait time
Remove hibernation file
Remove start-up items
Sacrifice Graphics for Speed
Services
Services Info and Configurations
Shutdown XP using your keyboard!
Simple Outlook express loading after msn messenger is removed
Skip Operating System selection on boot
Slow logon to domain in XP Pro
Slow network access not always due to Scheduled tasks check
Smooth Mouse
Speed Boot - Shave 2 Seconds
Speed up boot by disabling unused ports
Speed up Detailed view in Explorer
Speed up Menu Appearence Without Causing Problems with zero delay
Speed up menu display
Speed up Network Browsing
Speed-up log-in tremendously!
Stop Jerkey Graphics
Stop jerky graphics. The alternative way.
Stripping Page File across Multiple Hard drives
System Response
System Settings for a Game Machine
The System Configuration Utility
Turn off disk performance monitors
Turn off Indexing to speed up XP
Turn off System Restore to save space
Unload .dll's to Free Memory
Users not interested in fancy windows and colors
Very Slow boot when networking
View and manage startup programs
Watch movies with 'AboveNormal' priority
Windows XP does have a back-up Utility!!!
Windows XP Icon Cache

thx tux

[tuxlinux]

You can access this tweaks on:

http://TweakXp.com

this is the best tweak site i have ver seen.
My computer is starting so fast wow.

And i turned off a lot of tools which i don´t need and this tools slow down windows xp very much.

thx!!

[spawn_syxx9]

Win Xp has always been very fast for me. I haven't really had any problems. Maybe you got lots of progs running and thus it doesn't start up very quickly.

[faceofdie]

if you change your windows xp to classic windows is runing faster
and you must delete startup program
and then you must manage data on your hard dist C: Drive
i think You have not Ram and high cpu

[kelp]

To speed up the process before windows starts, like the black screens and junk, you should download tunexp and ms bootvis. I haven't used bootvis first, but i'm going to this weekend after I defrag. Tunexp has reduced the time Windows loads at the start(the windows xp logo with the bars). it only goes by twice, which used to be like five times before I used that tunexp boot tweak.

[ariya]

You must going to start - Run
and type msconfig
and then go to Startup tab
and un check tiks to unload on your windows start up
if u have not start up program on your os your system uploading faster

[OpaQue]

Beware of the TweakUI program.. even though these programs do help you out to tweek ur pc for faster performance, wrong settings can result in adverse results. So it is better that you dont use such programs and do basic things like un-installing useless programs and also disabling them from startup. Disabling System restore ( be careful doing this ), periodically defragment your hard -drive.

[kawasu]

defrag once in a while. close any programs which start at boot whic dont need to be.. del temp files... hmm, there are plenty of ways.

[bakuryu]

Service tweaks do reduce the startup time. However remember to defragment the drive where Windows is installed often (at least once a week).

Also without using bootvis you can perform the exact similar tasks :

1. Start -> Run type : defrag c: -b
Assuming Windows XP to be installed in drive C.

Then again Start->Run type : rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

This process run's in background (no visible window), but look for the hard disk activity led .... takes some time to complete.

[fo0xcr4f7]

tuxlinux, on Oct 27 2004, 04:47 PM, said:

HI!!

I also was waiting a long time to my windows xp so i serached a lot and i found this programm Tewak XP.

Performance Tweaks
Application Defrag
ASPI Drivers
Auto Delete Temporary Folder
Automate Disk Cleanup
Backup - The easy way
CD ROM Stops AutoPlaying...
Changing CD Staging Area Folder Location
Clean your prefetch to improve performance.
Clicking AVI Files on explorer causing 100% CPU Usage
Contiguous File Allocation size
Convert FAT32 To NTFS
Correcting System Hang at Startup
Decrease system loading time by changing network settings
Decrease your Applications startup time
Delete Prefetch Automatically
Disable automatic updating
Disable auto-reboot
Disable Debug Scripting in Internet Explorer
Disable Disk Cleanup
Disable Indexing Services
Disable Prefetch for low memory systems
Disable Recent Documents History
Disable Search from looking in zip (compressed) files
Disable unnecessary programs
Disable unnecessary services to free system resources
Disable XP Boot Logo
Disable zip folders
Disabling Automatic Updates properly DMA Mode on IDE Devices
Easily Disable Messenger
Easy Way to Adjust LargeSystemCache
Edit Hidden System Settings using Group Policy Editor
Enable or disable boot defrag
Fast startup /shutdown
Faster Boot-Up without tons of fonts
Faster Dual Boot Timeout
Faster startup of Windows XP
Fonts: more thereon ...
Free-up some more disk space
Fresh Install with no ACPI (updated)
Fresh install with no ACPI.
Gaming Machine: Hardware Profile to free up System Resources
Get rid of IM and no slow OE startup
Getting More Processing Power
HDD slowdown when booting
Increase speed by tweaking prefetcher settings
Increase XP NTFS performance
Intel Application Accelerator - speed up disk access
Its all about your priorities
Launch apps with desired priority setting
Make icons in windows appear quicker
Memory Performance Tweak
MFT Fragmentation
Modify application timeout
Modify auto-reboot setting
No DOZE
No more low disk space messages
NTFS Cluster size
Problems enabling DMA on IDE drives
Proformance Increase through My Computer
Reduce 10 second scandisk wait time
Remove hibernation file
Remove start-up items
Sacrifice Graphics for Speed
Services
Services Info and Configurations
Shutdown XP using your keyboard!
Simple Outlook express loading after msn messenger is removed
Skip Operating System selection on boot
Slow logon to domain in XP Pro
Slow network access not always due to Scheduled tasks check
Smooth Mouse
Speed Boot - Shave 2 Seconds
Speed up boot by disabling unused ports
Speed up Detailed view in Explorer
Speed up Menu Appearence Without Causing Problems with zero delay
Speed up menu display
Speed up Network Browsing
Speed-up log-in tremendously!
Stop Jerkey Graphics
Stop jerky graphics. The alternative way.
Stripping Page File across Multiple Hard drives
System Response
System Settings for a Game Machine
The System Configuration Utility
Turn off disk performance monitors
Turn off Indexing to speed up XP
Turn off System Restore to save space
Unload .dll's to Free Memory
Users not interested in fancy windows and colors
Very Slow boot when networking
View and manage startup programs
Watch movies with 'AboveNormal' priority
Windows XP does have a back-up Utility!!!
Windows XP Icon Cache
thx tux

That took me ages to scroll through!! As i was using my PSP browser at the time

On Topic: If your Windows is really that slow you probually have a virus or some other form of malware. Next time you log in i reccomend you update your virus scanner and then do an ixtensive virus scan.

[mbafactory]

What I have seen, WinXP is really a good OS as compared to others, but if it is taking longer time to boot in your pc there may be a couple of reasons for that viz.
Many unnecessary programmes in startup, for this try finding out the unuseful processes and remove them from booting- it will greately reduce the boot time of your machine.
Secondly see if you have not installed some heavy antivirus programme, any Symantec product, coz that is something which will reduce the speed of your system drastically.

Hope these two things will help.

[aloKNsh]

yeah this will work click on strt and then on run type without quotes "msconfig" and press enter and then select the last option and select the neccessary programms only.................and press apply the reboot
m sure and its tested dun worry and be happy

for further assistence contact me....
rite2alok@gmail.com

or

testingpirakx@gmail.com

Edited by sweet_tchxprt, 03 February 2009 - 11:28 AM.

[frozen.fish]

mine is tweaked well only 18 proccesses running its faast.. disable uneeded stuff and lessen the fonts.(this will make booting significantly faster.) disable themes, system restore(i find this useless.) use clamwin.(no guard though. so no running proccesses.)

and defrag once a year with perfectdisk..