XP Pro Boots tooo Slow

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Gokhan

I am using Xp Pro. I used bootvis to improve it. In the
graphs it shows that real booting takes place after 43
seconds. The disk does actually start moving after 43
seconds. Waht ever I did nothing improved. In my college
computers with 600 Mhz Cpu started in 15 seconds but after
the upgrade they made they start at approximately 5
seconds. Can you please help me solve this problem. I have
a 1300 Mhz Celeron CPU.
 
List the times taken by each of the processes in the first bar graph. Hover
over each bar with the mouse.

Disk Init Time
Driver Init
Prefetching
Registry and Pagefile
Video
Shell
Logon and Service

Bootvis optimization doesn't do anything that xp doesn't do by itself, it
just forces it to do it straight away, instead or around once every 3 days
when the system has been idle for I think 30 minutes.

43 seconds isn;t so bad, the windows xp spec was based on 30 secs.

You say you have a 1300MHz celeron, how much memory does the system have,
and what kind of hard disk. Is it connected to a local area network, or
stand alone.

Do you have any scsi or RAID controllers in your system ?

What upgrade was made to your college pc's, was it a hardware or software
upgrade.

Are they taking 5 seconds to actually boot from cold, or have they been
setup to go into standby, 5 seconds to resume from standby would sound more
like it.

Paul
 
Gokhan said:
I am using Xp Pro. I used bootvis to improve it. In the
graphs it shows that real booting takes place after 43
seconds. The disk does actually start moving after 43
seconds. Waht ever I did nothing improved. In my college
computers with 600 Mhz Cpu started in 15 seconds but after
the upgrade they made they start at approximately 5
seconds. Can you please help me solve this problem. I have
a 1300 Mhz Celeron CPU.
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Do you get a bios post screen or an OEM logo, like Dell or whatever
brand PC you have (if any) before the 43 second pause and THEN the
Windows XP boot screen?

If so, you probably have a hard drive delay set in your BIOS. Newer,
faster machines using older, slower hard drives can actually time out
because the drives can't keep up. The BIOS will halt the system and
report that there is no operating system. The delay allows the HD to
spin up before the BIOS attempts to locate the OS.
 
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