Boot time

[RodneyMargis]

i jsut timed my boot up process. i have windows 98 on a 120gb harddrive. a cold boot took 52. 03 seconds to desktop. this seems preety good to me but i want to get it lower is there any way i can get it under 45seconds. and tricks would be appreciatred

[toomyg]

using msconfig to stop uneeded programs from starting is a good first step and defragging your HD helps alot too

[Dan]

your boot time is actually pretty good. if you have AV running automatically at start it can slow things down...(like toomyg stated, you can disable it in msconfig) also spyware and adware detectors can take up time.

[not important]

That time seems pretty rerasonable. Mine takes about the same.

[Cricket]

Make sure the Quick POST option is enabled in BIOS.

Set the hard drive as the first boot device in BIOS.

Keep the number of programs that start up with Windows to a absolute minimum...only applications that you really need should be loading up and showing up in the Systray.

Keep the number of Fonts installed to a minimum. Having hundreds of Fonts will slow the boot process.

Set the minimum and maximum size of the swapfile to lock it in instead of allowing it to be dynamic.

Keep the recycle bin and temp folders clean.

Make sure your drivers are all up to date.

Keep the number of desktop icons to a minimum.

Use a simple desktop wallpaper.

Remove the speaker icon from the Systray...there are other ways to adjust volume.

If you have Office installed, make sure Find Fast is not enabled.

Don't use Task Manager or Task Scheduler unless you absolutely have to.

Defrag your hard drive regularly.

Cricket

[RodneyMargis]

thanks for all teh suggestions everone

[Brandon G.]

and also, 53sec isnt bad. im assuming its either a P2 or P3 or Athlon under 1.0GHz so that aint bad. I saw(not mine) a Athlon XP 2200+ with 480MB DDR PC2100 with 98SE boot in 20sec. with that same system (only 256MB DDR tho) 95OSR2 took 12.1sec to boot.

[RodneyMargis]

its an amd k6-2 300, in another post a person got his 98 boot time down to 10seconds. how do you get it that low

[Cricket]

Originally posted by RodneyMargis how do you get it that low

Upgrade to WinME. Otherwise, forget it...you won't get a K6-2 300MHz computer to boot to the Win98SE desktop in 10 seconds.

Last K6-2 computer I worked on was a 500Mhz, 128MB PC100, new 7200 RPM HDD, Win98 and it took over a minute to reach the Windows desktop after installing the OS to the brand new HDD. Was a real big improvement from the Pentium 100Mhz with 32MB FPM RAM and 5400 RPM HDD the system originally had though...in that configuration, the system took almost 2 minutes to reach the Windows desktop.

Cricket

[mike breck]

If you're on a network, it's going to take longer as well.

[RodneyMargis]

so if i upgraded to me it would boot faster. what if i upgraded to windows 2000. i really dont want to go to me cuz i have heard it is very stable

[Cricket]

Originally posted by RodneyMargis so if i upgraded to me it would boot faster.

Yes, WinME boots up much faster than Win98SE.

Originally posted by RodneyMargis what if i upgraded to windows 2000.

Then your boot time might end up being a little longer since the boot process for Win2000 isn't anything like WinME's.

Originally posted by RodneyMargis i really dont want to go to me cuz i have heard it is very stable

Huh?

Why are you so concerned with how long it takes your computer to boot up? Once it has Windows loaded up, doesn't it run well? That's all that matters.

Cricket

[RodneyMargis]

oops i meant i heard that me was an unstable operating system. is this true

[Cricket]

Originally posted by RodneyMargis oops i meant i heard that me was an unstable operating system. is this true

No. WinME is basically Win98SE with a few "improvements" added.

If your system is running well, I wouldn't do anything. No need to fix something that isn't broken.

Cricket

[RodneyMargis]

okay thanks for all your help cricket.