Firecat Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 You can also make XP boot faster by tweaking the Primary/Secondary IDE channels... Goto Device Manager >> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers >> Primary IDE Channel >> Advanced Settings tab; change the Transfer Mode to: "DMA if available" for both Device0, and Device1. Do the same for Secondary IDE Channel. Note: If the Current Transfer Mode is set to "Not Applicable" for either Device, make sure you change the Device Type setting to "None". This will prevent windows from searching for IDE devices that aren't actually present. When you're done, shutdown and restart - the boot process should be a little faster. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-722590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantasy Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 And also you can modify the registry to speed up your XP start...:) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-769554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Man Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 How do u do that? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-769749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detri Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 Check out "Windows XP- From Reformat to Relax" at TweakTown.com Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-770486 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 :: mother of all tweaks :: 1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\ 2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc". 3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window. 4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open". 5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit. 6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc". 7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" 8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties". 9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK". 10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9. 11. Reboot your computer. and Create a batch file by doing the following: 1) Open notepad and enter the following lines: RD /S /q "C:\Documents and Settings\"UserName without quotes"\Local Settings\History" RD /S /q "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\History" RD /S /q "D:\Temp\" <--"Deletes temp folder, type in the location of your temp folder" 2) Save the fily and then rename is something like deltemp.bat 3) Now click Start, Run and type in gpedit.msc --->Computer Configuration --->Windows Settings --->Scripts and double click on Shutdown --->Click Add and find the batch file you created and press ok to set the script Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-770721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miran Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 Or you could just use hibernate to shut down (or standby S3 powerstate)... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-770731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eye_see_you Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 hey this may come in handy...... :beer: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-770736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0se Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 You can disable totally Prefetching via the registry! Run regedit.exe then go to: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryManagement\PrefetchParameters Change EnablePrefetcher value from 3 to 5 (decimal) The website I read this on also said: Note: Whatever you do DO NOT install a tool called BOOTVIS from Microsoft, unless you're absolutely sure of what you're doing and have good knowledge of the tool and it's use :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-771187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphere Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 lol, Why was this dug up? It was posted on Jul 20 2002. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-771299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 :: mother of all tweaks ::1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\ 2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc". 3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window. 4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open". 5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit. 6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc". 7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" 8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties". 9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK". 10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9. 11. Reboot your computer. and Create a batch file by doing the following: 1) Open notepad and enter the following lines: RD /S /q "C:\Documents and Settings\"UserName without quotes"\Local Settings\History" RD /S /q "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\History" RD /S /q "D:\Temp\" <--"Deletes temp folder, type in the location of your temp folder" 2) Save the fily and then rename is something like deltemp.bat 3) Now click Start, Run and type in gpedit.msc --->Computer Configuration --->Windows Settings --->Scripts and double click on Shutdown --->Click Add and find the batch file you created and press ok to set the script thanx b0se for pointing that out DMA if available should b selected Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-780951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoWhen Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Lets all post on old topics, hurry!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-780967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thE_qubE Posted April 27, 2003 Share Posted April 27, 2003 have you made you hdd as primary boot drive? it doz help believe me.... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-808284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sierra Posted April 27, 2003 Share Posted April 27, 2003 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-808295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpanda Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 editing the msconfog does the thign for me..now my boot is very fast..i like it Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-811056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fpd Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 run services.msc and disable all unneeded services. decreased my boot time by 5 more seconds :yes: :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-811123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpanda Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 run services.msc and disable all unneeded services.decreased my boot time by 5 more seconds :yes: :D yar...edit that and msconfig can give u a decrease in boot time of a big difference... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/38718-faster-xp-boot/page/2/#findComment-811134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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