Win2k boot up times help needed

[Ammok]

Can you please post your boot up time for Win2k.

Mines seems to be rather slow. So as we can can all compare apples for apples,

can you post times to the logon screen

and times to the windows dring (or whatever sound announces its on)

It would be helpful if you could tell me your cpu and ram.

Mines are 1.4 athlon and 256mb ram with Win2k Pro SP2

To logon screen it takes 1min 37 secs and to the dring 1.57 secs

All replys appreciated especially any that can tell me if there is a way to speed it up.

TIA

[muchmark]

One of the best to speed up boot time is to disable services you don't use from starting up, also by doing it you conserve resources see here.

[bluemoon]

Oh Lord,37 + 1.5 seconds to boot up w2k and you are complaining.
My p2 takes about 2.5 to 3 MINUTES between the time I push the power button to hdd lite flicker to stop.
I think my p3 takes about them same amount of time as yours.
You need a fastest Hdd and controller I think.

Regards,

bluemoon

[Ammok]

Bluemoon

Sorry, it takes one minute thirty seven seconds to get to the logon screen and a further twenty three seconds to get to thwindows sound, so two minutes to get to the windows sound from boot power on.

I think think I would be happy with 37 secs.!

The article given by muchmark is very useful indeed. I have disabled afew here and there and will post back any improvement.

P3 what BTW? How much mem?

[bluemoon]

Sorry Ammok ,There are so many forums here that I missed you.
It is p3-866 384MB ram.
I think it is the relatively smaller drive that I use to give me a resonable booting speed.I have Quantum 10 gig ata 100 7200
Also I have ATI Radeon 32 ddr,that helps too(I think).

Regards,

bluemoon

[bluemoon]

****.I miss-read your posting twice.My appology.
No doubt that you can unload some junk to try to speed up the boot process.

On win2k pro,the most common thing to delay the boot process is "looking for network connections" related.I have heard that if you have a nic without proper network set up,then win2k will spend time searching,therefore takes longer to boot.
I also read about someone mentioned to check your properties on Primary / Secondary hdd channel controller.Depends on what you have in each channel,you should make sure the device 1(device one)under the advance option is set up properly.For example,if you do not have a slave hdd in channel one,then device one should set to none(default is auto).This way,win2k will not have to spend time searching for device.
To get to the above,go into hardware / device manager /ide controller..........

Anyway,the idea is don't give excuse to the system to look for device.

Regards,

bluemoon

[NDC]

Here's a list of most of the Win2k services & explanations...

Windows 2000 Service List & Recommendation

[Ammok]

Thanks so far people.

Switched as much as I could to manual and gained a two second improvement.

I shall try the IDE next and NDC's info.

Will post back later any improvement.


THX.

[Ammok]

Dopne the IDe thingy and saved a few more seconds.

I am going to install XP and see if it boots faster.

THX for the help.

Cheers.

[qball]

I should know this....

Can't you do a logged boot and then examine the log, or am I stuck in win9X thinking... Not the greatest solution, but if one device is a problem...

Running 2k right now with networking, booted to logon screen in about 40 seconds...

[Ammok]

Now your depressing me. Somethings amiss methinks.

[benderr]

Anmok,

Is the system acting sluggish after it's booted all the way up? If so then check the virtual memory settings - if you changed it from "Let Windows manage the virtual memory" (or the like) then better undo it - although your PC has 256MB!
Also, make sure that you are using a fast hd
(oops - someone already suggested that)


Regards,
Roland

[qball]

I should know this....

I do, I do. Though I have never done this.......

Hit F8 for advanced option and choose the boot with logging.

After boot, find what is taking so long in boot log file. There exist a boot log analyzer for win9X, may work with 2k...DOH!

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0...lst-7-1.914007

Seems to be only win9x, bla to bla...

[Ammok]

Right chaps, latest update.

It does seem to be hdd related aftwer a lot of help and suggestions.

I have taken most of my gaming software off and defragged my hdd, twice. i have removed all software i did not need and cleaned the registery and the startup. I have disabled all networking.

results.

Biggest diff was when I defragged the drive. Most of the other suggestions gave me one or two second savings.

Overall, machine now boots to logon screen in fifty seven secs and the windows noise dring in a further fifteen secs. This represents a total saving of 45 seconds. So I am weel pleased.

Finally, having been pilloried for having a nice new system with a **** hdd, i have just ordered a new DiamondMax 60gb 7200 rpm ide drive and it should arrive by this weekend.

I will load win2k on its own and post back and let you all know what happened.

THX for all help and suggestions.

[Ammok]

Got a new 60gb 7200rpm Maxtor HDD ATA133, although my MSI k7T266 mobo only supports ata100.

Installed win2k on its own and rebooted. To desktop it took a total of 45 seconds.

Thanks for all your help peeps, much appreciated.

Consigned 20gb old HDD to a more suited AMD k2-500.