Speedup Windows startup

Hi could anyone give me some tips to help me speed up my boot time?

 

well assuming you are spyware/malware/virus free, msconfig seems to work out ok.

if you click start, run then type msconfig and press enter you are there. there is a tab that says start up and that is where you can select what loads up when you boot up. it's nice because you can disable stuff like realplayer and quicktime and stuff like that from starting up when you boot into windows.

this is also assuming you are using XP, as i do not know if this works for other Microsoft OS'.

hope that helps a bit

 

You can edit the boot.ini file (in Win2K anyway). Under [boot loader] there's a line that reads "timeout=30". This is the number of seconds of delay before bootup starts. I changed mine to 10 seconds. You could probably go even less.

 

What OS are you using? XP Pro, 2000, ME, 98SE, or what? System specs would help to provide various methods of attack. Bazza

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This is typical for multiple boot options only. Like, if you have windows 2k/xp and 2k/xp recovery or some other OS.

If only one OS is installed, this portion does not affect anything.

As BigBazza states, we really need to know what OS we are dealing with.

 

That timeout is the time to display a list of operating systems.

As stated, it's only valid for multiple operating systems.

 

If you haven't already cut some of your services try Black Viper

If there is only one account you can try this.
1. Click Start on the Windows taskbar, and then click Run.

2. In the Open box, type:control userpasswords2

then click OK.
3. In the dialog box that appears,
You'll see: "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" check box.
Enabled will require users to logon, disabling will make XP automatically logon to the Administrator account.

 

Did you read anything that anyone else posted? We DO NOT KNOW the OS in question.

This would be useless if this was any 9x (95/98/ME) type of OS.

Typically, a good defrag will fix this. Typically......

 

msconfig works in 98 and ME. not sure about 95

i think when i used 95 i used to use a program called tweakui from windows power toys to change startup settings and programs.

I Dont know if there is a version for newer windows, but i heard about powertoys for XP.