Boot your Windows XP Fast Tutorials
By macubx
@macubx (11414)
Philippines
October 21, 2006 5:15pm CST
Boot Winxp Fast
NOTE:
This involves editing the boot settings, its advised to create a system restore point in the unlikely event of anything going wrong.
Follow the following steps and winxp will boot alot faster.
1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\
2. From the Start menu, select "Run" and type "gpedit.msc".
3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window.
4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".
5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.
6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".
7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".
9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".
10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.
2 people like this
3 responses
@sreejithsreenivas (10200)
• India
24 Feb 07
The information given by you is very useful for me,because i am working as a networking engineer and a faculty.Thanks a lot for this information.If you know more tips please post it.It will be more useful discussion for technical people.
