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by azwanarif

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Recently my Boss show me his notebook that his windows xp can boot windows under 3 second untill login prompt box appear,can some one tell me how to make or edit Windows XP boot under 3 seconds

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by Former member

It depends on how many applications you are running when booting up. The other alternatives will be putting in raptor drives or more memory (or both). I have two raptor drives configured as raid 0, with this setup your computer will be on par (or faster) than your bosses laptop.
If you do this do not tell your boss, he would take yoour computer away for his needs thats for sure.

by captbilly1eye

Here's an article with loads of tips:
http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/download.aspx?&q=xp+boot&docid=173565.

I have found that disabling unnecessary Services gave me the greatest boot speed improvement.
Article: http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/download.aspx?&q=xp+services&docid=172521
Video: http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/download.aspx?&q=xp+services&docid=173114

After re-reading your post, I have to say... 3 seconds is not realistic. Your Boss must have had the system in Sleep mode rather than shut down when he restarted.
Sounds like he was playing a joke on you.

Please let me know if this helps.

by azwanarif

For your information , my bos noteboke was not under hibernation or standby mode he show to me that he force shutdown the notebook and on it back and load windows boot logo appear and it took 3 seconds untill windows login prompt box appear.

by langlier

but rather recovering from hibernation that you saw. It is possible to get windows to boot faster with more RAM, defraged hd, the minimal amount of programs and services starting at startup. However a 3 second boot is nearly impossible. A 3 second recover from sleep/hibernation? Fairly easy to achieve.

by triathlete1981

set a service to manual, it won't automatically start during boot, right?

by captbilly1eye

Yes. Setting a Service to Manual will mean that it will only start by manually starting it. So, it won't start automatically at boot.

Be careful with what services you deactivate, though. Many are necessary for normal operation.

Lemme know if you need any more info.

by azwanarif

I forgot to mention his using DELL notebook with 512MB RAM only

by langlier

problem is the expense for a large space. But mobile things like small linux and BartPE work wonders on a flash drive.

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