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flampoo:
My PC is so fast that before I hit the power button it jumps to life. I'm running a MS-DOS Kaypro 286i with a 8MHz intel 80286 and 512 KB of RAM. Yeah, I know what you're thinking... "SLOW DOWN!"
Minwah:

--- Quote from: Silver on September 21, 2004, 07:33:39 am ---Removing/disabling as much hardware as possible speeds up things, as the OS initialises everything it detects. Most Motherboards these days are very integrated - Audio/Lan/Floppy/Ide/Raid/USB/Parallel/2xSerial/Ps2 is standard. If you don't use it - disable it in the bios (e.g. Floppy/1xide/raid/serial/paralllel/ps2 are often unused). This prevents the OS loading the driver and waiting for it to initialise the hardware. Having said that, XP performs this task much faster than previous windows.

Also disable the killer services - like Indexing, system restore, windows themes, any anti-virus, networking stuff (unless you need it!). Set you windows paging file to one size only (ie same min and max) so it doesn't waste time resizing it.

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Done all of this, but it didn't make much difference to my cab PC, other than slow it down.  I ran BootVis, and disabling services is definately to blame - I'll have to try and find out why...


--- Quote ---Once you're happy you've slimmed it all down, run a defrag - boot up is massively harddisk dependant. Using a fast hardisk as your boot drive makes the world of difference - a 8meg cache 7200rpm Hitachi or 10k WD raptor affair, while more pricey, boot noticeable faster than a generic 160 gig drive. They tend to have firmware optimised for desktop use as well, so these drives can even outperform high-end scsi drives on bootup times as scsi tend to be optimised for workstation applications.

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I should probably do a defrag, I have a Maxtor Diamondmax 9 7200rpm 8meg SATA drive.


--- Quote ---And finally - keep booting. XP auto-optimises bootup and application starts after set intervals (read up on BootVis on the MS website) so you should find things improve (slightly) over time anyway.

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Cool :)


--- Quote ---Of course, there is always PLAN B:  ;-)

Buy a "HyperOs HyperDrive III" from  http://www.hyperos2002.com/

These badboys are basically ram harddrives - apparantly you can install XP from scratch in under 5 mins on them. They are also silent. You could buy a 2gig version and use it as a boot drive.

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Pretty cool...it would be nice not to hear any HD noise...
Thenasty:
you would still HEAR HD NOISE because 2GB is not enough for  all the ROMS  :P
mp2526:

--- Quote from: Thenasty on September 21, 2004, 10:53:46 am ---you would still HEAR HD NOISE because 2GB is not enough for  all the ROMS  :P

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from their site

Unlike the HyperDrive II (opposite) which only took on board RAM. The HyperDirve III provides 8 DIMM slots, each of which can take DIMMs up to 2GB in capacity (no on board RAM). So max capacity is now 16GB.

but at $698.25 I'll pass
Minwah:

--- Quote from: mp2526 on September 21, 2004, 11:11:55 am ---So max capacity is now 16GB.

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Exactly, and even in 2GB you could fit a shedload of games.  For the price it's not worth it imo, but very interesting nevertheless.
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