Boot & Shutdown in Win XP

[foxmulder]

I'm running Win XP and it takes forever to boot and shutdown. Is there any way I can tweak this?

It's not the hardware BTW: XP1700+@1.65Ghz, 256 MB DDR, MSI K7T 266

[foxmulder]

Anybody?

[jbell]

I don't know XP but try these...

Right click your desktop
Go to 'new'
then go to 'shortcut'
In the command line type in :
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C:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows
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Click next,
Name it something simple like - fast shutdown,
Go to your desktop and duoble click it - now how sweet is that!
It it the ONLY way I shut down now on my rig.
A faster way to restart - when you go to start - shutdown - then select reboot, hold the shift key then click on the button - hold the shift key until it restarts... it forces it to skip the process of rebooting the comp and only reboots Windows... and it does not work in WinME.
Have fun!

[Topo]

Where is the hangup? Before Logo Screen? After?

Do you have a NIC configured for DHCP, but no live connection?

Do you have a ton of USB devices attached?

Usually, slow boots after the kernel has loaded are driver related...

[el]

my xp machine boots in 18seconds and shutdown in like 13 seconds. I think you have some conflict or shutdown problem. if it shutsdown bad then next boot takes longer. have fun and I hope you figure this out.

[Yodums]

You running Windows XP final... or a pervious beta?

[foxmulder]

Well thanks for the feedback. It isn't that my system hangs, it's just that it takes really long to boot and shut down. What I mean specifically is that the black boot screen where the windows logo is displayed (I think thats when it's loading the kernel) and the shutdown screen (windows is shutting down bla bla...) take forever.

Im running the last Beta version.


Thanks for your help