Start-up performance of XP Embedded?

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Hello:

I am considering converting a project over to Windows XP Embedded from XP
Professional. I am planning on keeping the current hardware platform and just
changing the O/S. It is currently running on a VIA EPIA SP-13000 mini-ITX
motherboard which has 512Mb RAM, and a 7200 RPM 60Gb hard disk. It will be
driving a sound card, touch screen LCD and some other USB hardware, as well
as possibly some wireless networking and maybe bluetooth operations.

My big concern is start-up speed. The current WinXP Pro installation which
has been optimized and trimmed down as much as possible currently takes about
65 seconds from power-on to application active. I shaved that down to about
35 seconds by hibernating rather than shutting down, but I would like to get
this down even lower.

Hence the consideration for Windows XP Embedded. Is it any better than an
optimized version of regular Windows XP?
 
VHarvey said:
Hence the consideration for Windows XP Embedded. Is it any better
than an optimized version of regular Windows XP?
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In my opinion you *may* be able to shave a bit of time
by not including unnecessary drivers but I doubt you will
gain much. XPE is still XP Pro binaries.

Try downloading the eval of XPe tools and give it a go. :-)

-Mike
 
I sort of figured it would be about the same as regular WinXP, I just thought
that maybe the embedded version had something for faster startup processing.
I am already experimenting with hibernation, and it definitely cuts down my
restart time. I may scale back my memory so that it does not have to load as
much when resuming.

The other thing I was thinking about is hibernating and resuming from a
flash drive instead. Can this be done with regular Windows XP or XPE? Then
resuming should be really fast as reading from a flash drive is much faster
than from disk.
 
Well I don't know about reading from a flash drive is faster that a regular
HDD. That will depend on the flash drive you are using.
Hibernate should work. There needs to be enough empty space on the drive to
hold the systems RAM. If the total RAM is 512MB than you will need 512MB to
store the hiberfil.sys.

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit.
 
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