loading xp screen

[krnmikel]

hello, i was wondering about the boot screen for windows xp, the blue bar for pro and green bar for home. anyways i was wondering how to make that faster, is there and sort of bios editing or simply do i need a better hardrive with better rpm. i have a 7200 rpm hardrive and the boot screen takes a while.

[Tocksiq]

how long??

[krnmikel]

the bar goes across probably like 12-15 times.

[Templarian]

Thats slow, mine takes a totol to boot to the entire computer up to the login in about. Actually im going to go time it one sec.

20second exactly. And the bar goes by 2-3 times. I never defrag becuase im lasy but i have a 10000rpm (which has like 9gigs left on it out of 74). If i were on a 7200 rpm drive it would take about 27seconds to load in.

[GW02]

Haha, you can't make your computer run faster just with BIOS settings, krn... wish you could though. :P

I'd recommend a healthy reformat.

[prstudio]

download and run this utility at

www.ccleaner.com

then if you are skilled and feel proficient enough have a look at :
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1786000,00.asp

that link is not for the faint of heart however

you can speed up your boot time via bios but the performance gain is almost neglible and disables a vital part of your systems diagnostics

[GW02]

that link is not for the faint of heart however

you can speed up your boot time via bios but the performance gain is almost neglible and disables a vital part of your systems diagnostics

Very dangerous, wouldn't recommend it at any cost. If you lose your computer that way chances are you won't be able to recover it without drastic measures.

However: the link you linked was about lowering the OS-choice menu but your post text was about disabling diagnostics. Huh?

[prstudio]

its only dangerous if you are not experienced with such things - hence my warning -
however the service manager tweaking, cleaning up the temp files, fixing registry entries, and clearing out what programs load on startup are safe and a good thing for anyone to learn - as with anything it comes with risk, but learning is risky.

things to stay away from are the enabling of quick boot, the editing of the boot.ini file, and messing with the boot files, everything else in that article is fine for doing, just take it slow and read everything.

if you have questions, do not continue with a step you are unfamiliar with and post up any questions, or show us your startup list, etc so we can help you.

reformatting would be the last thing to do in this instance, clearing up the things i mentioned above will more than likely speed it up followed by running a defragment.

*there were several links to multiple steps at the bottom of the article gwing

[B3NKobe]

download and run this utility at

www.ccleaner.com

Thanks for that PR, Iv been using Window Washer, but this is much better!!

[prstudio]

np the app works wonders, make sure to check out all the options on it, there are quite a few good ones :)

[krnmikel]

thanks a lot for the app prstudio =D.