Faster Boot Up

[AzNXCrEaSiAn]

hi i was just woundering how i can make my comp boot up faster. i know about the A:\ drive skip thing but i just woundering is there anymore.


PS.i have a win95 100MHz Pentium MMX (yea i know is slow and a really bad comp.) and o yea im only 13 but i knoe a lot about these

[harshadeep]

Hi,

You could try removing some programs from your start-up which usually are bottle-necks during the booting process. I would also suggest you to scan and defrag your HDD regularly and keep your Recycle Bin and Temporary Internet Folders empty. I don't think you could do anything more about this. The other option is upgrading the memory or the processor of your system.

Regards,
Harsha.

[Brangwen]

AzNXCrEaSiAn:

First, how did you pick that name? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Second, you may be able to disable the Windoze splash screen on boot. I did this on Win98se.

Go into your root directory and then edit the "msdos.sys" file. (If you cannot find this file, go to View in Windows Explorer and check 'show all files'). Scroll down until you see "Logo=1" -- change that to "Logo=0", save, exit and that will get rid of the splash screen.

Good luck.

Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[Tekk]

Brangwen...did that increase your boot time by a noticeable amount?

[club_med]

In the BIOS should be a 'quick POST on startup' or something like that, it should also contribute to speeding up the boot up time.

cm.

[Richard_Cranium72]

A more simple approach, is to go to

Start,
Run
and type in
msconfig
then, go to the start-up tab and uncheck everything you don't want to run on start.

You must leave Scanreg, System Tray and if ya want, the Anti-Virus(I don't)

DrVette

[RandomGoon]

DrVette's suggestion would work if you copied the MSCONFIG.EXE from a Win98 machine. (Sorry Doc http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif )

Az, did you make your name from the abreviations for the elements from the periodic table??? If nothing else it's creative http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

'Goon

[Brangwen]

Tekk:

You asked:

"...did that increase your boot time by a noticeable amount?"

I believe it decreased it. I think the original reason I disabled the splash screen was I didn't care to see it. I'm not certain if its removal speeds up boot time by much...

Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif


[This message has been edited by Brangwen (edited 05-25-2001).]

[Richard_Cranium72]

But, but, but,,, I have an excuse,, really.. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

No, seriously, I got a 19" el-cheapo KDS monitor and I sit about 7' away in the recliner..

I looked, really I did for the OS in question and it looked like 98 from that distance..

Sorry for the confusion there, AzNXCrEaSiAn
Man that's hard to pronounce http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

DrVette

[SirNickity]

If you're not networked (IE, you don't have cable modem/DSL/whatever would require DHCP) you can give Windows a default IP address.

When Windows is loading, it queries the 'network' for a DHCP server to automatically assign you an IP and DNS server info. If 1) you don't have a network, 2) you don't have a DHCP server, or 3) you don't need an assigned IP, you can speed up the boot process by SEVERAL seconds by forcing an IP.

On the desktop, right-click your Network Neighborhood icon and pick Properties. This will load the network config dialog. Pick the TCP/IP entry (there may be more than one, but use the one assigned to your dialup adapter -- AKA modem -- or other primary network interface), then click the IP tab. There will be two option buttons labeled "Assign IP address automatically" and "Specify an IP address." Specify an IP of 192.168.0.x (any number between 0 and 255 will work) and a Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.0. This is a range of IPs used ONLY for LANs and will not route over the internet, so you're assured it won't collide with any other address unless you're on a LAN. Don't worry, you'll still be able to get on the internet same as usual, unless, as I said, you're using cable modem or something that requires a DHCP server.

Anyway, give this a shot. You can always change it back to Assign (ie, use DHCP) if it goes wrong.

-SirNickity

[spidey_joe80@hotmail.com]

just for the record richard what model kds monitor do u have?

[araaraara]

How long does it currently take you to boot up? With Win95 and a p100, I don't think there's too much room for improvement unless you are loading tons of unesessary programs or waiting for some device to work. A few second is all you really have to gain.

[Richard_Cranium72]

VS-190e, $189.00 @ buy.com

[MiKe85]

I am going to reformat this weekend..
My computer has been lagging horribly!!
I've ran scandisk, etc.
ahh well, it will give me a legit excuse to play with the computer all day long!! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[G]

Hi AzNXCrEaSiAn, (a duplicate of a post I made some time ago)

Boot in under a minute: Windows ME has this ability but older flavours of Windows can be coaxed into booting nearly as fast as tweaking a file called C:\Msdos.sys. Simply open a command prompt and type the command ATTRIB(space)-R(space)-S(space)-H(space)C:\MSDOS.SYS(Enter) Then type NOTEPAD(space)C:\MSDOS.SYS(Enter) Scroll down to the section labelled [options] and add

DoubleBuffer=0
DrvSpace=0
DblSpace=0
Logo=0
BootLog=0
DisableLog=0
SystemReg=0

Note: there may be other entries to but these can be left alone for now. If you do not have some of these entries then these can be edited into the file. It may be the case that you do not have some of these programs installed and that is one of the reasons why there is no entry.

Line 1 keeps Windows from loading a low-level device driver that’s generally only needed if you have an Isa SCSI card. Lines 2 & 3 keep Windows from trying to determine whether you need drivers for disk compression. FAT32 isn’t compatible with disk compression anyway, so there’s no point. Line 4 turns off the Windows logo, which increases boot time (sometimes significantly, sometimes not). Line 5 turns off Windows’ boot delay. The boot delay gives you a little more time to hit Ctrl at boot up to get to the boot menu. Line 6 turns off logging; while logs can be a useful diagnostic tool, more often than not they’re just slowing down the boot process. Line 7 keeps Windows from scanning the Registry at boot up for hardware profiles. Unless you have a laptop you’re probably not using these.

After you’ve added these lines, save the file, then enter the command: ATTRIB(space)+R(space)+S(space)+H(space)C:\MSDOS.S YS(Enter) at the command prompt. With these modifications you should improve your boot up times even if you have boot up password protection or a rollback program such as GoBack or whatever activated will boot up is commencing. The modifications go some way to improve boot up nevertheless.

Note: Msdos.sys may be hidden. This will be because ‘Do not show hidden or system files’ is activated. Go to My Computer, View, Folder options, View, and Hidden files. Activate ‘Show all files. You will able to find MsDos.sys now (‘C:\MsDos.sys’ typically). Make whatever alterations you wish and then change ‘Show all files’ to Do not show hidden files or system files - unless you prefer not to.

There are a number of ways of carrying out the above, mine is just one method.

There are many alterations that can be made to this file and to others like this but this should be enough for now. One-step-at-a-time. The remaining posts give further suggestions but may be you could try Xteq X-setup at www.xteq.com (http://www.xteq.com) also. Many useful tweaks you can perform using this program (freeware) which will augment the changes I have, and others, have suggested thus far.

All the best,
G

[Brangwen]

G:

Very comprehensive and imformative post. I shall modify my msdos.sys according to your suggestion then post my results. Presently I've only disabled my Win98se splash screen. On a 1.3 GHz @ 1.5 GHz (512 MB CS2 P133SDRAM, ATA100/7200RPM) system my boot time is about 50 seconds.

Thx.

Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[Brangwen]

G:

I tried the msdos.sys tweaks. Boot takes about 5 seconds LONGER http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif !!!

Oh, well. Mayhaps it will work better for other non-WinMe users.

Thx.

Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif