Win98 StartUp

Quickest way to speed up any computer is to
add more RAM. Memory is real cheap right now
and it is a good time to do it. Good Luck.

If you're talking about helping WIN98 boot faster, try this: goto Start>Run and type "msconfig" (without the quotes). From the System Configuration Utility, choose the "Starup" tab. From there, you can uncheck any programs that you want to that normally start at boot-up, which can help WIN98 boot up significantly faster. Some of the programs may be a little difficult to decipher, so be sure you know what you're taking out of startup.

Hope that helps at all!

Good luck,

- Mark

Here are some articles you can use:
the second article makes some reference to msconfig..but there's more info...

The ultimate preventive maintenance checklist (from Tech Republic)
https://www.techrepublic.com/download_item.jhtml?id=dw03119990818jed01.htm

Illegal Operations in Windows 98
http://www.themestream.com/gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=114823&id_list=&cookied=T

Just make sure there are no spaces in the URL when copying and pasting!!

The following material is from www.compaq.com.

F. Faster Startup
Windows will usually pause a few seconds to allow you to switch into DOS if needed. To shave those extra seconds off the startup time you can edit a protected system file called MSDOS.SYS.

DO NOT CHANGE ANY SETTINGS, YOU ARE NOT FAMILER WITH!

Removing the protection
1. Click Start/Find/Files or Folders
2. In the box labeled NAMED: type MSDOS.SYS
3. If more than one of these files are found, you will need to edit theone located on C:
4. Right-click on the file and choose Properties
5. Remove the checkmark from Read-Only

Now you will need to edit the file.

1. Using the same FIND window, double click on MSDOS.SYS
2. If the Open With windows appears, scroll down the list a choose NOTEPAD and click OK.

DO NOT CLOSE THE FIND WINDOW

3. Scroll down until the [Options] section is located.
4. Add the command BootDelay=0 or BootDelay=1 depending on how much faster you want it to load.

The Boot Delay option tells Windows to boot directly into the graphical user interface without pausing (for the 0 setting) to give users the opportunity to switch into DOS.

1. Back in the FIND window, right-click on the MSDOS.SYS file and choose properties again.
2. Place the checkmark back on the Read-Only option.

For an additional boost of speed you can also add the Dblspace=0 and DrvSpace=0 commands under [Options] Section.

Dblspace=0 disables the loading of the DBLSPACE.BIN driver (Microsoft?s old disk compressor) and DrvSpace=0 disables the loading of the DRVSPACE.BIN (Updated version of disk compressor), so if you don?t use compression go ahead and stop these from loading.

G. Miscellaneous Tweaks
During Startup, Windows loads allthe FONTS that you?ve installed which makes startup tedious and takes up memory. You can cut start time by limiting yourself to the number of fonts you depend on.

Here a some shortcuts that can save a little time:
1) check in the BIOS and see is your Hard Drives are set to Auto detect. If they are, manually insert the correct information (heads, cylinders, etc)this information should be printed on the drive.

2)Also in theBIOS:
PNP OS yes
Turn off memory check
Boot from C: only
Quickstart/Quickboot
Turn off floppy seek

3)Turn off any programs that do a virus scan at startup

4)Clean up the registry

5)Defragment your hard drive

6) Go to control panel, system, Performance tab. Hit the File System button, select the Floppy Disk tab. Uncheck the box which enables searching for new floppy drives.

These settings should speed up your boot process somewhat.

Enter the Bios by holding down the del button when starting. Make sure that the bios cache level one is enabled. cpu cache level 2 is enabled.
System bios cachable - Enabled
Video bios cachable - enabled
Video Ram Cachable - enabled
I dont like the last setting as it writes to the monochrome area of the video card and lock you up. The rest work well