Boot up speeds

i have a question and hopefully you guys can figure it out. Im problem is boot up times. It seems to take a long time to boot up to the user selection screen. i have the ze4610us, Athlon XP-m 2500+ processor with 512 ram running xp home. I have unchecked unneeded programs in startup and have selected 'desktop' in the power scheme to see if it speeds up but no improvements that i could tell. I have a Dell desktop (win XP Pro, 733mhz) and takes a 1/3 of the time to get to the user selection screen than the HP. any ideas what to do?

 

You've got a 4200RPM HD in your notebook and a 7200RPM HD in your desktop. That's the biggest problem. Swap in a 5400RPM Hitachi or Seagate notebook drive, do a clean install of WinXP, skip the additional gunk HP preinstalls, and your boot time will be much faster.

 

did u try bootvis or tunexp??..u can download them in the hardware section and then "optimize notebook"..and then find it there...they will help your notebook load faster and do a lotta other things faster as well...hope that helps

 

If you can afford it the Hitachi 7200RPM drives are very nice as well.

 

thanks for the help......

 

Rubberman,

As previously suggested, reloading the OS will definitely help, as well as upgrading to a faster HDD. But you also have to look at what kind of programs you're loading into your system. I know things like Norton's AV will slow down your boot time. If you have a wireless card in your notebook, this will slow things down even more. When booting, I believe it searchs for connectivity and may slow bootup times maybe by approx 10 secs or more. The more software/drivers you load into the system, the longer it'll also take to boot. Even if it's not listed in the startup in the active process list or even in the startup, there's other things loaded in different sections of the Registry. This is also another place that can slow things down. If you're Registry is loaded with a lot of useless entries (old stuff that no longer are installed, etc....), then this will slow down boot times as the system searches for the apps/drivers.

Best thing to do is to wipe you system completely and install from scratch (not using HP restore discs), but a manual load. Install just the drivers needed for all the hardware to work and then try testing boot times. I'm sure after this the boot times will be better. You may want to do this even before upgrading your HDD.

-Vb-

 

no problem