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04-29-2003, 02:56 PM
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Fly Eagles Fly
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Windows XP boot time
My windows XP Pro seems to take forever to boot compared to some people's 30 second boot times. Can someone tell me how I can lower this? It seems like I see the XP loading screen forever during reboots.
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04-29-2003, 03:23 PM
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I had the same problem. Mine started when it started asking me to change my password. I went to, right click my computer,manage,users and set password to never expire. That changed my boot time from about 4 min to 45 sec. Dont know if this will help you but it's worth a try. If you try it let me know if it worked.
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04-29-2003, 04:14 PM
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this program improved my boot time... you might want to give it a try and see if it helps...
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platf...ot/BootVis.asp |
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04-29-2003, 05:43 PM
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Edit, posted to wrong thread.
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04-30-2003, 05:47 PM
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Fly Eagles Fly
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Yeah, my passwords already never expire. So that can't be it. I downloaded that bootvis thing. I'm going to try it and see what it can do.
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05-01-2003, 07:56 PM
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Hope I am not scare mongering, but the last time I saw XP taking this long to boot, was down to a harddrive that was failing.
I substaniated this by, 1. Running the HD MFR's tools 2. Installing Win 98SE 3.Formatting and then re-installing XP. The Disk tools showed nothin wrong. Win 98 took over 5 mins to boot XP even after a FAT 32 and Then another clean install on NTFS took in excess of 8 mins. A replacement HDD was setup, WinXP reloaded and hey presto 40 seconds to boot. I put the suspect HDD in another machine, installed 98 and still over 5 mins. Ran it in there for a week, very slow response to commands and then all of a sudden............DEAD. HTH
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