Shorten boot time in Win XP ---> Win10

mikkydoos · March 30, 2017

My bro' found this on a Linux forum yesterday. Seems to work.

* Beware, I set a value incorrectly and my machine blue screens on boot.

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Go to the start button, choose run, then type msconfig and press Ok.

On the system configuration window, choose the "Boot.INI" tab.

Check “No Gui Boot”, then lower the timeout to a more manageable time.

I choose 3 seconds in stead of 30. (windows won’t accept a lower number than 3)

Next choose advanced options.

This is where you can choose how many processors you have.

Most modern PC's are duo core (2 processors) with some quad core (4 processors, and there are even some with 8 Cores or more, )

then choose OK.

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The Windows default is only 1 core.

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***** That isn't correct - surely. The default value displayed is 1 core but the system wouldn't use 1 core to boot. Hhhm. Will investigate.

Now choose apply and OK, reboot and you should see a marked decrease in boot time.

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Did this last night on a laptop with a 5400rpm disk and a Celeron dual core, 4GB RAM.

Got the stopwatch out ---> 43secs to boot from power switch down (including BIOS post)

Then set the CPU value to the value it offered me (2 cores) and started up again - Same ---> 43 secs.

Then I set the RAM value aswell to the value it offered me, in my case 4096MB, started up again ---> 33 secs

Seemed to work and the system tray stuff loaded very quickly after login.

* Then to experiment I set the RAM value to 0 thinking it would use all the RAM available. It didnt. Blue screen straight away. Fixing today.

Have a play if you're brave. Seems to work in a VM too.

******* I accept NO responsibility for borking your machine *********

Arthur · March 30, 2017

Check "No Gui Boot"

When you time the boot speeds properly (i.e. not with a stopwatch) you will find that checking this option doesn't make any difference.

See the following article and its followup.

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