Tuesday, March 1, 2011

How to Make Windows XP Startup Faster

Windows seems to be getting slower in its old age. Especially when you first switch it on. We just clocked a brand new laptop at a shade under 2 minutes from pressing the "on" switch to it finally deciding that it was OK to be used.

Windows will never be ultra fast booting up because of everything it needs to do. Just look at the stuff Windows Vista has to go through every time it boots up:

  • Bios - the real prehistoric stuff that's been around since before PCs
  • Master Boot Record - stores the stuff that normally happens when your PC boots up
  • Boot Sector - a special area of your hard drive, reserved for booting up Windows
  • Windows Boot Manager - a program that reads the main Windows booting file
  • Read from Boot Configuration Data - instructions on what to actually do on booting up Windows
  • Search for hibernation file - just in case Windows didn't shut down completely and instead just went into hibernation (especially on a laptop)
  • Start winload.exe - the program that actually starts to load Windows
  • Start the operating system itself
  • Start Session Manager Subsystem (whatever that is!)
  • Gets ready to ask you to log in to Windows itself
  • Start all the necessary services and asks you to login (at last)

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