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hunter00

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windows xp pro is really spastic as far as boot times go for me. i didn't time anything, but you know those bars that scroll across in the opening screen where it says windows xp? i get anywhere from 3-30 scrolls, which is odd to say the least. No one else i know has problems like this, its always normal boot times, i was wondering if anyone knew why this happened or if there was anything i could do to optimize (shorten) my boot times. thanks!
 
First thing I would try is (If you haven't already) go through your start up files in msconfig and clean them up this should help the boot time a bit and possably help the spastic boot times if one of your start up files are causing this delay .....
 
Yodums is sooooooooooooooo correct it is a great site with every kind of tweak even too many for me and I tweak and regedit until my fingers bleed!

search for bootvis if you are the lazy type.
 
Heres a tip I stumbled upon for faster shutdowns and it seems to work great with no degradation of files being written to hdd @shutdown


Open up REGEDIT and goto "HKCURRENTUSER\Control Panel\Desktop\

and set the setting "HungAppTimeout" to 5000(which is default) and make "WaitToKillAppTimeout" 4000(20000 is default)

Also, go to "HKLOCALMACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\WaitToKillServiceTimeout" and make that 4000 too.


BACK UP YOU'RE REGISTRY BEFORE YOU PLAY WITH IT
 
Tweak programs or start-up (msconfig). So far I can't complain tooooooooo much about this OS, it encodes video fine, edits my music just fine so far I'm happy :) :)
 
for me it wasn't the "vitamin bar"....mostly just after logging in (network settings....bleah)

after installing i did notice a faster boot thru the bar....and logging in was MUCH faster....lets see if it'll stay that way!
 
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