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Jun 8th, 2005
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Re: Make windows shutdown and startup faster

Quote originally posted by jwenting ...
It's all hardware related (apart from my AV, firewall, mail- and webservers).

With 4 harddrives, a DVD burner, and a dozen USB devices, it just takes time for all that to power up and have their drivers loaded.
After that it's mainly the DSL which takes a while to come up, which delays the startup cycle of my mailserver and firewall.
With all this money you have invested in Paraphanalia, you don't have cable? How many webservers does a person need? A dozen USB devices? You work for the CIA or what? Guys at Circuit City must really smile when they see you coming.
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Re: Make windows shutdown and startup faster

I had an ide card hocked up on my machine to squeeze in a 3rd harddrive, and it botted in a fair 2 minutes. I also have a dozen usb devices but it never took more then 5 minuted to boot, look at mine now without the ide card ive timed some 13 sec. almost all the time.
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You can do much more then that

There is much more you can do to improve Boot Times like using:

Autoruns to disable useless startup applications
Turning off unnecessary services
Making sure your system is Virus and Spyware free
Running PageDefrag
And of course using BootVis

All this is found here: Optimize XP - A Windows XP Optimization Guide
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Re: Make windows shutdown and startup faster

I had to reinstall windows xp and now when i start up it says windows is starting up and it takes about 2 min to get the logon screan. How can i get windows to start up faster?
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Re: Make windows shutdown and startup faster

Follow this Guide: Optimize XP
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Re: Make windows shutdown and startup faster

I tried that but it still taking a long time for windows to start.
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THE ANSWER Make windows shutdown and startup faster

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Re: Make windows shutdown and startup faster

Hi mastercheif ! Can you please start a new thread in windows 2000, xp troubleshooting ... this way you'll get more help ...
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Re: Make windows shutdown and startup faster

Quote originally posted by nanosani ...
I've noticed that when the exit windows and start windows sound is enabled ... the system takes a lot of time to boot or shutdown. You can disable these annoying sounds from your control panel -->Sounds and Audio Devices -> Sounds ... and make your system boot and shutdown faster.
Good thinking I would never have thought this would effect it.
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