Let XP speed up boot up a few tricks

The hardware factors affecting the starting speed

The main hardware that affects the startup speed of the computer is the motherboard and hard disk as well as memory, which is not related to the CPU.

Motherboard is a variety of computer accessories "base", in the boot to do a lot of work, such as self-test, search a variety of ports, various external devices. Therefore, reducing the self-test time, reducing the external equipment and improving the efficiency can improve the start-up speed. If the computer is connected to a scanner, USB hard disk and other peripherals, it may reduce the boot speed of the system. It is recommended that you connect when you need to use these peripherals, USB devices can be connected after startup.

The main factor determining motherboard performance is the motherboard chipset, and the primary factor determining the boot speed is the disk performance and driver performance of the motherboard chipset.

In addition to post, computer startup time is mainly used to read system files from the hard disk. The hard disk works by moving the head to read and write data on a high-speed rotating platter. The higher the disc speed, the more data will be read by the head in unit time, which is very advantageous to the system startup. In addition, seek time fast, cache large hard drive can also significantly improve the startup time.

Reduce the boot disk scan wait time, when the Windows log has an abnormal shutdown, panic caused by the reboot, the system will automatically run the disk scanner at startup. By default, you wait 10 seconds before each partition is scanned, and if each partition waits 10 seconds to begin scanning, plus the time it takes to scan itself, it can take a long time to complete the startup process. In this case, we can set the time to cancel the disk scan, or even disable the scan of a disk partition.

Start → run, enter "chkntfs/t:0", you can set the disk scan wait time to 0, if you want to ignore scanning a partition when the computer starts, such as C disk, you can enter the "chkntfs/x C:" command; If you want to restore the scan to C disk, you can use "chkntfs/d C:" command, you can restore all chkntfs defaults In addition to the countdown to automatic file checking.

One hardware that has a significant impact on Windows XP is memory. Running Windows XP with 256MB of memory is smoother, and 512MB of RAM can make the system work well.

Second, through the desktop or Control Panel for the relevant settings (security)

1 Remove the gorgeous and bloated appearance

Remove the "wallpaper", "Screen saver", and delete the extra desktop icons. If it is WinXP, you can also right-click My Computer, select Properties → advanced, click settings in the Performance item, and select Adjust for best performance.

2) Regular Maintenance system

If you install and remove too many games, too many applications, too many old materials in your system, your computer will run faster and slower, and the boot time is getting longer. Therefore, it is best to do a comprehensive maintenance on the computer every once in a while (generally 1-3 months). Click on "Start" → "program" → "Attachment" → "System Tools", with the disk Cleanup and defragmentation, the computer to do a comprehensive maintenance, pay attention to the disk fragmentation when the system is in the disk must be sorted, so as to really speed up the start of the order of Windows.

3 Reduce the pre-boot time

(1) Open "System Properties" (right-click on My Computer-properties, or open "system" in the control Panel, shortcut key win+pause break) point "advanced" tab, in the "Boot and recovery" area to open "settings", remove the "system boot" area two √, If a multi-user user retains the "time to display the list of operating systems" √, it is set to 5 on the inside.

(2) If you do not want to allow the startup scroll bar to appear, you can click the "Edit" button in the previous step, open the "System Startup" section of the editor, in the boot Notepad fastdetect after the addition of/noguiboot, so that when the boot will not show the scroll bar. If you really like the display of this scroll bar, you don't have to do it.

4) Enlarge the virtual memory capacity

If your hard drive is big enough, please open the "system" in the control Panel. In the Performance option, open virtual memory, select the second item: the user sets the virtual memory setting, points to a less-used hard drive, and sets the maximum and minimum values to a fixed value of about twice times the size of physical memory. In this way, the virtual memory in the use of hard disk, you do not have to indulge in its large and small differences, but the fixed space as virtual memory, speed up access speed. Virtual memory settings are best done after "disk defragmentation" so that virtual memory is not in a contiguous, fragmented file space, and can work better.

5 Remove the boot flag of Windows.

Click "Start" → "Control Panel" → "Folder Options" and check "Show All Files" from the "Advanced Settings" list box in the "View" tab. Then open the C disk, find Msdos.sys this file, and cancel its "read only" attribute, open it, under the "option" paragraph, plus a line of statements: logo=0, so that the Windows boot pattern will not be loaded to run.

You can also click-Start-run: Enter Msconfig, and then find Boot.ini, which/bootlog the hook inside.

6 desktop icons too many to get into trouble

Too many icons on the desktop can also slow down the system's boot speed. Each time Windows starts and displays the desktop, it needs to look up the icons of the desktop shortcuts and load them individually, and the more icons, the more time it takes. It is recommended that you put your desktop icons in a special folder or simply delete them.

(small hint): Some anti-virus software provides the system launches the scanning function, this will consume very many time, actually if you have already turned on the anti-virus software the real-time monitoring function, then starts the scanning system to appear some superfluous, or will this function forbid.

7 File and Printer Sharing

Some computers that have a professional version of Windows XP also appear to be very slow to start because, after using the Bootvis.exe program, the Mrxsmb.dll file adds time to the computer's startup.

To resolve this problem, simply stop sharing folders and printers: select start → settings → network and dial-up connections, right-click Local Area Connection, select Properties, and in an open window, cancel the check box before "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" under this connection using the following selected components.

8 Remove redundant self-starter program

Start → run, enter "msconfig", then click OK, the System Configuration Utility dialog box is called, and the Startup tab is selected, which lists the items and sources that are loaded when the system starts, and carefully reviews whether each item needs to be loaded automatically or clears the current check box. The fewer items you load, the faster you start.

9 use Bootvis software to improve the start-up speed

Bootvis is a start-up optimization tool provided by Microsoft, (download Address: www.skycn.com/soft/7766.html) is a Microsoft start-up accelerator developed specifically for WinXP, the use of a more secure, can significantly improve the start-up speed of Windows XP, Interested friends can view their help files.

Using Bootvis to improve the startup speed of Windows XP must be done in the correct order, otherwise it will not increase the effect of speed.

10) Modify IDE Channel control (WinXP)

Right-click My computer → properties → hardware → Device Manager → Expand IDE ata/atap Controller Double-click the primary IDE Channel option and select the Advanced Settings tab in the dialog box that pops up, and in device 0 and device 1, in device type, change the original automatic detection to none. "OK" to exit. The secondary IDE channel also modifies the same method. After the reboot, the scroll bar scrolling time is significantly reduced.

11 Disable Redundant Services

Windows XP has many programs or services that are transferred to the system's memory at startup, and are often used to control hardware devices, memory, file management, or other important system features of Windows systems. However, many of these services for our use is not even useful, their existence will occupy memory and system resources, so they should be disabled, the system speed naturally will be greatly improved.

Start → run, enter "Services.msc" and return, you can open the Services window. The window's list of services lists the name, status, and startup type of all services provided by the system. To modify a service, double-click it from the list, and it pops up its Properties dialog box. You can modify the service from the General tab to modify the status of the service by clicking the start, Stop, pause, restore four buttons, and you can modify the startup type from the Startup type Drop-down list, and the startup type has the automatic , manual, disabled three kinds. If you want to prevent a service from starting automatically loading, change its startup type to disabled.

Windows XP provides more than 30 defaults for all services that are automatically started, in fact, only 8-10 of them must be retained, others can be set according to their needs, and the role of each service is prompted in the software.

(TIPS): You can search through the Internet to see the relevant introduction.

12) Delete system backup files

After a variety of hardware and software installed properly, in fact, XP needs to update the file when there is little. Start → run, input: Sfc.exe/purgecache then enter.

13) Compressed Folder

Windows XP has built-in processing for the. zip file, and we can browse the zip file as a folder. However, the system will use some resources to achieve this, so disabling this feature can improve system performance. The implementation method is very simple, just cancel Zipfldr.dll registration on it, click Start-Run, enter: regsvr32/u zipfldr.dll. then enter.

14) Sorting and optimizing the registration form

When Windows starts up, the system reads the relevant data in the registry and is temporarily stored in RAM (memory), which is spent most of the time Windows is powered on. Therefore, it is necessary to organize and optimize the registration form. For the optimization of the registry, you can use software such as the master of Windows Optimizer, Super Bunny, and so on. To Windows Optimization Master, click on "Registration information cleaning" → "scan", the software will automatically clean the registry for you in the garbage, after the scan is over, will pop up a menu to let you choose whether to back up the registry, recommended to select Backup, Backup and then click "Clear" can be.

15) network card settings

When entering the operating system, the system will search for the IP address of the network card. If the IP address of the network adapter is set to be automatically obtained, the system will search the network for the DHCP server to obtain the IP address, which will increase the startup time virtually. If not necessary, it is best to specify the IP address of the network card (especially in the local area network client, preferably for their own computer to specify a fixed IP address, the general use of the Cat explained).

16 DMA Transfer mode on the hard drive

Right-click on the desktop "My Computer → properties → hardware → Device Manager →ide Ata/atapi controller → Find the hard disk's IDE channel → properties → advanced settings", turn on the hard disk DMA transfer mode to speed up data read and write speed, just check the DMA options before the hook.

Third, by modifying the BIOS, the registry for related settings (there is a certain risk)

1 BIOS optimization settings for the motherboard

Turn off redundant IDE channels, USB devices, and other hardware that can be shielded from "None". Automatically detects the hard drive with IDE HDD Auto detection. Do not carry out memory detection, the various cache open, into the "Advanced CMOS Setup", will "Quick Boot" set to "Enable", do not detect more than 1MB of memory.

The "IDE 0 master/slave pio/dma mode,ide 1 master/slave pio/dma mode" hard drive sequence (mode) is all set to "Auto".

Go to the "Advanced BIOS Features" option, move the cursor to the "Top boot Device" option, and select "HDD-0" to boot directly from the hard drive, starting up for several seconds. Move the cursor to "quick power On Self test" (quick post) to "Enabled". Set to "Disabled" for boot up floppy seek (power-on self-test). It is recommended that the memory-quality memory bar be set to "2" in the SDRAM CAS latency option.

(small hint): in different motherboard bios, its English name may not be the same, can refer to the user's own computer motherboard manual to set.

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(1) Modify the registry to reduce pre-read, reduce progress bar wait time

Windows XP will have a progress bar during startup, and we can go to the login screen by modifying the registry so that the progress bar runs only one lap.

Click the "Run" command on the Start menu, type the "regedit" command in the "Run" dialog box, and then enter the Registry Editor to find Hkey_local_ in the registry. Machinesystemcurrentcontrolsetcontrolsession managermemory managementprefetchparameters, select the Enableprefetcher key under it, Change its key value to "1".

(2) Modify the registry to speed up the time to set an automatic end Task

Open the registry (start-run-regedit), click "My Computer" to open "find" on the Edit menu, enter Autoendtasks, and point to "Find Next." Double-click to open the found result to modify the "numeric data" of 1. Then you can find the hungapptimeout,waittokillapptimeout below the Autoendtasks, set the "Value data" to 4000 or smaller, and in the way, change the time of the menu delay, Find Menushowdelay below Autoendtasks, which is in milliseconds, and set to 0 if you want to remove the menu delay.

Iv. the "heterodoxy" approach

That is, the system suspension, the current system state in the shutdown after the save, the next boot, the system will go directly to the last shutdown before the desktop, but not all motherboard BIOS support, set up also slightly trouble. Typically in the BIOS's integrated external device options (integrated peripherals) Pwron after Pwr-fail select Former-sts

PS: In addition, by deleting some related files, such as font files, *.ini files, DLL files, and so on, turn off System Restore can also speed up the start, but he is to damage the system files or repair functions at the expense of, so do not advocate him.

Finally, if the above method to do the computer startup speed is still not fast enough, in addition to upgrading hardware (CPU, memory, hard disk, motherboard, etc.), another good way is to reload the system, which can significantly speed up the computer startup speed.