Is There Anyway To Make Winxp Start Faster? booting up so long...

[nicky1 0]

I ever use win 98,me they are booting up so fast.and when I switch to winXP I must wait long time before they are starting and ready to work. I not install many program on it and my comp is not too slow to run it. who has any way to make it to start more faster?

[pbrugge 0]

Yes that is possible and it is kinda easy to all you need is a smaal program called bootvis, it is a program from microsoft and you can find more info and the download at this location:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/BootVis.shtml

Good luck

[rowita 0]

Try this :

Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for Windows XP

 

 

From faster boot times, to speeding up your current hardware, PCstats has 99 Tips to make your computer run quicker, better, and more efficiently. - Version 1.0.0

 

[ashiezai 0]

Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for Windows XP

ouch .. that's toooo much thing that i can do with my xp ... but im like kinda lazy to browse all of them .. can u plz tell me wat is more important ?

last time my win2000 booted kinda fast n very stable .. i wonder y xp boots up that slow ...

[jamesdm 0]

For a better performance is general and a fast boot you need to disable Winxp services that you don't need, i don't remember website in english but i will try to find out what services can you stop to get a better performance.

[Roahl 0]

To make your computer (with windows xp) start faster do one or all of the following things:- Delete from time to time all files in the Prefect directory (located in the Windows directory)- Defragment your harddisk once in a while.- Turn of System Restore.- Disable the new visual styles and use that ugly grey one from previous windows.These are not all for making windows start up faster, but also to make it run faster. You could also try to update your BIOS (I think it's called flashing?) if you do not have the latest version already. But note: don't hold me responsible for any problems whatsoever .

[solankyno1 0]

The links provided here looks pretty good. I am just going to check all the information provided here. Let's hope my system can be faster. There is also a tool called Tweak UI that can improve some things also. Sorry i have forgotten the link for it . Please google it.

[filipc 0]

Hi ,I am not sure , but I think I can help you.Click on Start>Run , enter "msconfig" , then go to "startup tab" and uncheck all items you don't want to start with windows.That was help me several times , and make computer faster.

[switch 0]

hey everyone.

 

fillipc... good stuff. that's what i did to my computer after my dad told me it helped heaps. also another thing to do is in msconfig click on the services tab and, same thing, disable all the stuff you don't need. it helps heaps, but you need to be REALLY REALLY careful. and whatever you do DONT disable the services marked essential. THIS WILL KILL YOUR COMPUTER.

 

anyway, apart from that, this should speed up your computer a fair bit!

 

[joecool 0]

Hi ,
I am not sure , but I think I can help you.

Click on Start>Run , enter "msconfig" , then go to "startup tab" and uncheck all items you don't want to start with windows.

That was help me several times , and make computer faster.

yeah but when i do that it always get these little popups i clicked disable all and rebooted and took longer than if everything was selected. am i doing something wrong here?

[reciter 0]

yeah but when i do that it always get these little popups i clicked disable all and rebooted and took longer than if everything was selected. am i doing something wrong here?

I have also used this method repeatedly. Possibly you may be having also unckecked the required program by mistake.

If it does not solve by this method, isn't there any other cause?
Since GUI of Windows XP is a little heavier than the conventional thing,there is a method of changing GUI into classic.If it is carried out, Window will open a bit more smoothly.

Otherwise, although that will not be right, it may be possibly infected with spyware.

[2091 0]

so... heres the beginners guide 4 a faster winxp... first login as administrator 2 gain all rights.

 

seccond click on "start/run" and type "regedit". hit "F3" and search 4 "runonce" and delete all programms u dont use in the tabs run, runonce and runservices.

 

so. next u got to enlarge the swapfile. rithtclick on "desktop/properties". u shuld see now the systeminformation [not the graphigs]. go to the last tab and set the swapfile to "minimum 130 and maximum 300 mb". this shuld boost your pc a little.

 

if u use th? symantec norton firewall or av - deinstall and get annother one. symantec is a performancekiller.

 

so. now hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and select the taskmanager. check wich apps are running and localize theese u dont need...

 

restart - finisch.

ur pc is now 20-70% faster.

[tuxlinux 0]

HI!!

 

I also was waiting a long time to my windows xp so i serached a lot and i found this programm Tewak XP.

 

Performance Tweaks

 

 

Application Defrag

ASPI Drivers

Auto Delete Temporary Folder

Automate Disk Cleanup

Backup - The easy way

CD ROM Stops AutoPlaying...

Changing CD Staging Area Folder Location

Clean your prefetch to improve performance.

Clicking AVI Files on explorer causing 100% CPU Usage

Contiguous File Allocation size

Convert FAT32 To NTFS

Correcting System Hang at Startup

Decrease system loading time by changing network settings

Decrease your Applications startup time

Delete Prefetch Automatically

Disable automatic updating

Disable auto-reboot

Disable Debug Scripting in Internet Explorer

Disable Disk Cleanup

Disable Indexing Services

Disable Prefetch for low memory systems

Disable Recent Documents History

Disable Search from looking in zip (compressed) files

Disable unnecessary programs

Disable unnecessary services to free system resources

Disable XP Boot Logo

Disable zip folders

Disabling Automatic Updates properly DMA Mode on IDE Devices

Easily Disable Messenger

Easy Way to Adjust LargeSystemCache

Edit Hidden System Settings using Group Policy Editor

Enable or disable boot defrag

Fast startup /shutdown

Faster Boot-Up without tons of fonts

Faster Dual Boot Timeout

Faster startup of Windows XP

Fonts: more thereon ...

Free-up some more disk space

Fresh Install with no ACPI (updated)

Fresh install with no ACPI.

Gaming Machine: Hardware Profile to free up System Resources

Get rid of IM and no slow OE startup

Getting More Processing Power

HDD slowdown when booting

Increase speed by tweaking prefetcher settings

Increase XP NTFS performance

Intel Application Accelerator - speed up disk access

Its all about your priorities

Launch apps with desired priority setting

Make icons in windows appear quicker

Memory Performance Tweak

MFT Fragmentation

Modify application timeout

Modify auto-reboot setting

No DOZE

No more low disk space messages

NTFS Cluster size

Problems enabling DMA on IDE drives

Proformance Increase through My Computer

Reduce 10 second scandisk wait time

Remove hibernation file

Remove start-up items

Sacrifice Graphics for Speed

Services

Services Info and Configurations

Shutdown XP using your keyboard!

Simple Outlook express loading after msn messenger is removed

Skip Operating System selection on boot

Slow logon to domain in XP Pro

Slow network access not always due to Scheduled tasks check

Smooth Mouse

Speed Boot - Shave 2 Seconds

Speed up boot by disabling unused ports

Speed up Detailed view in Explorer

Speed up Menu Appearence Without Causing Problems with zero delay

Speed up menu display

Speed up Network Browsing

Speed-up log-in tremendously!

Stop Jerkey Graphics

Stop jerky graphics. The alternative way.

Stripping Page File across Multiple Hard drives

System Response

System Settings for a Game Machine

The System Configuration Utility

Turn off disk performance monitors

Turn off Indexing to speed up XP

Turn off System Restore to save space

Unload .dll's to Free Memory

Users not interested in fancy windows and colors

Very Slow boot when networking

View and manage startup programs

Watch movies with 'AboveNormal' priority

Windows XP does have a back-up Utility!!!

Windows XP Icon Cache

thx tux

[tuxlinux 0]

You can access this tweaks on:

http://tweaks.com/

this is the best tweak site i have ver seen.
My computer is starting so fast wow.

And i turned off a lot of tools which i don´t need and this tools slow down windows xp very much.

thx!!

[spawn_syxx9 1]

Win Xp has always been very fast for me. I haven't really had any problems. Maybe you got lots of progs running and thus it doesn't start up very quickly.