XP Long boot time

[Mystery]

Well, just recently my XP Boot times have gone from ~30sec to 75 sec.
I have not made any hardware changes except from rerouting som power cables.

I Attach some screenshots of what I got when i ran BootVis.


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As you can see from this image, the HDD's seem to be sitting around and doing nothing for about 55 seconds. I have tried clearing the prefetch folder to decerase the long prefetching time, but that didn't work.

Thx for any help.

[Rovtar]

set fixed ip

control panel ->network connections -> right click on local network->selsect tci/ip ->click properties

here set:

use this ip: set it 193.186.121.123 (or something like that)
mask:255.255.255.0

set dns address and that's it

this should boost you boot time

then

run "regedit" and navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > Session Manager > MemoryManagment > PrefetchParameters

There you'll see a DWORD called "EnablePrefetcher" double click it and set the value between 5 to 7, which ever works better, I recommend 5.

[Mystery]

I tried what you said Rovtar, but the loading times are still the same. :brick:

[Rovtar]

hmm are you sure that hard disks works properly?

[Mystery]

Yep, everything works fine once I've logged in, no lag or anything...

[-el_lo-]

:slapass: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > Session Manager > MemoryManagment > PrefetchParameters shouldn't be set to something else than 0,1,2 or 3 !

0 ‐ Disable Prefetcher
1 ‐ Application launch prefetching
2 ‐ Boot prefetching
3 ‐ Both application and boot prefetching


The fastest for me is "1", that means no boot prefetching. Remove also all the files in "c:\windows\prefetch\" when you do that registry tweak and then reboot.
Hope it helps :toast: