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Minwah:

--- Quote from: Silver on September 15, 2004, 05:57:46 am ---45 secs sounds quite long if its a modern machine, especially if you are runing Minwah as the shell. Usually delays are network (logging on/connecting drives), hardware (some scsi/additional ata controllers are notorious for adding 10 secs) or loading drivers for not-present hardware. Also you can disable about 70% of services which helps loads - especially some network ones like "Workstation".

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I don't have MW as shell atm...just in Startup.  I have disabled my un-needed services (most of them), but it actually increased the boot time!  I tried it first on another PC and it made it quicker, but on my cab it added ~10 seconds on  >:(  One of those sods law things I suppose...
Silver:
Hmmm annoying! Could be that your installation is looking for services you've disabled and waiting on them a bit....

You've probably heard of the BootVis.exe tool from microsoft that allows you to optimise the boot sequence. They removed from the MS site saying that it was now an 'integral feature of XP and auto-optimises at set times' - however if you nab it off the web it allows you to run a 'trace boot' which records *everything* that the OS does at boot up and shows you on graphs  how long each bit takes. Its good for identifying problem drivers etc... (e.g. I had a driver that was hogging the system for 14 seconds - nothing else happened while it initialised. I changed the driver and viola - 12 seconds faster bootup)
Minwah:

--- Quote from: Silver on September 15, 2004, 06:31:08 am ---Hmmm annoying! Could be that your installation is looking for services you've disabled and waiting on them a bit....

You've probably heard of the BootVis.exe tool from microsoft that allows you to optimise the boot sequence. They removed from the MS site saying that it was now an 'integral feature of XP and auto-optimises at set times' - however if you nab it off the web it allows you to run a 'trace boot' which records *everything* that the OS does at boot up and shows you on graphs  how long each bit takes. Its good for identifying problem drivers etc... (e.g. I had a driver that was hogging the system for 14 seconds - nothing else happened while it initialised. I changed the driver and viola - 12 seconds faster bootup)

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I'd heard of it but didn't realise you could do that with it...I'll give it a try, thanks!
simplygriff:
Couple of Questions.

With the bootskin program can you use any image? OR do I have to make something special.  I'd try it out but I'm here at work and don't want to f anything up.

For those of you with loading meters do they actually work?  If so how?
-G
CMIVXX:
Wow.   I must say, some of these are quite cool..   Couple of things though.

#1, StarDock (http://www.stardock.com) has a pretty good boot screen manager, if I remember correctly it was free and worked well with a nice GUI.  BUT there were 2 things wrong with it.  First your image could only be 16 colors and second it made one of my computers not want to boot.  But a quick safemode uninstall fixed that right up.

#2, How did some of you get such colorful boot screens?  I'm assuming this is something other than the standard windows boot screen functionality.  What proggy or util did you use?

Thanks!
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