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#1 User is offline   PriZm77 

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Posted 23 October 2001 - 04:04 PM

What is windows doing when you see those three silver squares move?
anyone got some tweaks and things to disable to reboot and boot faster?
on WinME I was booting at like 35 seconds, now on XP it's like 50!

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Posted 23 October 2001 - 04:49 PM

Its loading the OS. You can see which files it is loading as it does it by adding a "/sos" to the end of your OS load line in boot.ini.

Right click "My Computer" -> Properties -> "Advanced" tab -> click Startup and Recovery "Settings" button -> "To edit the startup options file manually, click Edit." (click edit) -> add "/sos" to the end of your line (w/o quotes) like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (verbose)" /fastdetect [b:ec6914dc3b]/sos[/b:ec6914dc3b]

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Posted 23 October 2001 - 05:28 PM

If you are like me, you get very annoyed by the 30 sec. time delay before starting windows. Now, I know that you can pick the O/S you want by just pushing enter but a lot of times, I turn on the computer and walk away while it boots....the time to load O/S checkbox is under the Startup and Recovery console too.

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Posted 23 October 2001 - 05:36 PM

Lou...don't mean to be dumb but is /sos a tweak or is that just what you have to put at the end when you edit the command lines?

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Posted 23 October 2001 - 06:35 PM

The "/sos" part tell Windows to verbosely report the files and devices that are being loaded at boot. Doesn't hurt not to have it. If you add it then you won't see the startup logo, you will see devices being loaded and if CHKDISK runs you'll see its output.

It's basically like LOGO=0 under Windows 9x/ME in MSDOS.SYS.

I've also noticed if you have a network card in your system and you're not using ICS if you set your adaptor for static IPs it will speed up boot a little bit because it won't be waiting for the DHCP client to timeout.

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Posted 29 October 2001 - 12:50 PM

:dance [color=indigo:9db990bffe]Lou-- Thanks for the [b:9db990bffe]/sos[/b:9db990bffe] tweak. No more stupid startup screen! [/color:9db990bffe]:dance

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Posted 29 October 2001 - 01:05 PM

Lou, if I had read your post better I would have seen that you explained, clearly what /sos does...but thanks for rehashing it for me! LOL

Rick:D

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Posted 29 October 2001 - 01:26 PM

To drastically reduce your boot time, use the BootVis app from Microsoft. and run these instructions in this order:

[i:d23743e165]Run bootvis, trace menu, next boot+ driver delays, 2 repetitions. let it reboot twice, start bootvis again and load newest .bin file it created, select optimize system and let it do it's thing. after it's finished optimizing run boot+driver delays again and see how much shorter it is.[/i:d23743e165]

Get BootVis from here: ht*p://www.microsoft.com/HWDEV/fastboot/default.htm

It cut my boot time by 15-20 secs which is pretty good!

Also - To speed it up even more, assign an IP to your network card if you have one, and disable the Welcome screen (configured in Control Panel > Users)

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Posted 29 October 2001 - 04:52 PM

Aaron...I'm looking forward to using this...where does the .bin file go? I opened the d/l from winzip and it put the files in a temp folder.

Rick :eek:

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Posted 29 October 2001 - 05:12 PM

If you put the files in a temp folder, then the bin file will be put there after you run the "next boot+ driver delays" function.

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Posted 31 October 2001 - 02:53 PM

Aaron, I ran the following directions as you posted, but when I selected optimize I would get two error boxes, one that said it timed out and the out said that it was unable to start defrag.

I ran defrag just to make sure it worked and all was fine there, not sure where to go from here. Any help would be appreiciated.

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Posted 03 November 2001 - 06:06 PM

AaronXP, where do you assign IP for the network card?
Thanks...

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Posted 03 November 2001 - 07:17 PM

[quote:771fd9649c="NikNt"]
AaronXP, where do you assign IP for the network card?
Thanks... [/quote:771fd9649c]

Start > Settings > Network and Dial Up Connections > right click your Local Area Connection > Properties > Go to properties of your TCP/IP > put in an ip (192.168.0.1 for the first PC) then 192.168.0.2 and so on.

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Posted 04 November 2001 - 02:19 AM

Thanks AaronXP, When I got there the number 192.168.0.1 was already there. I'll put the second IP if it's not there in my laptop later...
By the way that BootView make the booting almost twice quicker, thanks man... The only problem is when I switch off Welcome screen, every time XP starts up, it asks password, I don't have any password for Account with Addmin privileges... so I just hit ENTER... do you know may be I missed something, because usually it skips the password thing for that Account...?
Thanks...

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Posted 04 November 2001 - 07:37 AM

[quote:988329e9cf="NikNt"]
The only problem is when I switch off Welcome screen, every time XP starts up, it asks password, I don't have any password for Account with Addmin privileges... so I just hit ENTER... do you know may be I missed something, because usually it skips the password thing for that Account...?
Thanks... [/quote:988329e9cf]

The "automatically login" feature in TweakUI must have got disabled by something. Go back in TweakUI and tick the box to automatically login. You won't have to press ENTER anymore.

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Posted 04 November 2001 - 12:47 PM

AaronXP, I don't actually use any TweakUI, but as soon as I switch Welcome screen back on XP skips it... never mind...
Thanks...

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Posted 23 December 2001 - 07:33 PM

AaronXP, thanks for the speed tip.

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