XP bootup

[Yuanji]

does anybody have any tips to speed up boot up times for XP? the taskbar usually takes a long time to fully load up and also i would like the initial bootup to take a little less time. would tweaks to anything help this?

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

Assuming you have SP2: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm
Also run msconfig (Start, Run, msconfig) and disable programs from there you don't need/want. Force Flow also wrote a very good article on optimization, although it is genral some of it might improve start up: http://www.pcmech.com/show/optimize/677/

[Yuanji]

the msconfig trick works like a charm i turned off a lot of stuff like msnmessanger, AIM, and everything is extremely fast! (by the way i use trillian but my family refuses and uses AIM)

[rjfvillarosa]

Yuanji try the blackviper link in Box's post, I have done it and my boot up time is getting better all the time. I have got it down from 97 seconds to 31 seconds.

[Yuanji]

my normal bootup time was around 40 seconds but after disabling AIM and MSN Messenger, it has gone down to around 20. I normally don't have the things on blackviper's list enabled anyways.
edit- i also found that after uninstalling the microsoft partner pack, my computer booted up faster. stupid useless programs.