booting faster

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Mr. Plow

Is there any way, either in adding/removing components,
or any type of registry/option setting to get XPe to boot
faster?
 
The less components you have, faster XPe will load.

What is your current image size?
What is your ideal boot time that you wish to accomplish?

Also what hardware do you have?

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Besides the removal of components and depending on your system hardware, you
might want to look starting and shutting down the system using Hibernation.
I have had a full XPe image start-up within 30 sec. 15 seconds of the time
was the BIOS.

Regards,

Sean Liming
A7 Engineering
Author: Windows XP Embedded Advanced
 
Slobodan Brcin said:
The less components you have, faster XPe will load.
Click to expand...

Except where you remove something that means something else is waiting
around for a reply that never comes (at least that what I assume was
happening when my boot time increased after removing a few components). If
you're using DHCP, and boot the machine up where there's no DHCP server
it'll take longer to boot than if there is one, too.
 
Hi Heidi,

You are right about DHCP.

But I was thinking about some serious removal. Like no network support, etc.
So there would not be any component left to wait on some other component.
When your image fall below 50 MB it is easy to maintain it.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
If third party solutions is not for you as it wasnt for me for sure,
I used Bootviz utlity to look into the boot status .. Its perfectly a
useful tool for betterment if there is any provision for same.
 
Slobodan,
I have a question regarding an application that I have written. This
application starts when the image loads, but it seems to take quite a while.
My image boots in about 45 seconds and my app takes around 45 seconds on top
of that. My device runs a 533 MHZ Via C3 with 128 Megs of ram and the
storage device is a 20 Gig HD 5400 RPM ATA5 with 2 Megs cache and fluid
dynamic bearing. This application was written using Visual Basic.net 2002.
Could the long load time be due to security/permissions/user account? Open
to any suggestions.

Regards,

Sean Gahan
 
Sean,

I guess that the tool is moved to a different location in the
Micorosft site,
however a search in net could take to many mirror images for
download.Though it wont improve the performance but being a
performance visualisation tool for having furthur investigation on
longer boot time.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/fastboot-winxp.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/default.mspx

The above links provides sufficient information .
If you get any other updates on information for a better boot please
update us .

Regards,
Kesavan
 
Kesavan,
I did some looking and the link that you provided seems to have the most
detail. Thanks for the follow-up.

Regards,

Sean Gahan
 
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