Nov 18
You can speed up your startup procedures by changing the BIOS with the built-insetup utility. How you run this utility varies from PC to PC, but you typically get to itby pressing the Delete, F1, or F10 keys during startup. You’ll come to a menu with avariety of choices. Here are the choices to make for faster system startups:Quick Power On Self Test (POST)When you choose this option, your system runs an abbreviated POST rather than thenormal, lengthy one.Boot Up Floppy SeekDisable this option. When it’s enabled, your system spends a few extra secondslooking for your floppy drivea relatively pointless procedure, especially consideringhow infrequently you use your floppy drive.Boot DelaySome systems let you delay booting after you turn on your PC so that your hard drivegets a chance to start spinning before bootup. Most likely, you don’t need to have thisboot delay, so turn it off. If you run into problems, however, you can turn it back on.
Nov 18
You can remove the boot logo that appears when you start Windows XP. This little tweak probably shaves only a few seconds off your boot time but seconds count if you are serious about trying to get Windows XP up and running as quickly as possible. The only negative is that if you remove the boot logo, you will also not see any boot messages, such as check disk.To remove the boot logo, follow these steps:
1. Select Start/Run, type msconfig, and click OK.
2. In the System Configuration Utility, click the BOOT.INI tab.
3. On the BOOT.INI tab, click the NOGUIBOOT check box option. Click OK.
Nov 18
There is way to give you an extra boost in WindowsXP’s boot performance. This is done by disabling your unused devices inDevice Manager. for example, if you don’t have input devices that are connected toone of your USBs or COM ports, disabling them will give you an extra perfromance boost in booting.Go to Control Panel \System \ Hardware tab
\Device manager.
Disable devices that you don’t use for your PC and then restart. See the difference foryourself.