is too slow to start the computer. It is the common heart of every computer fan. It is everyone's common wish to let the computer start faster. This tutorial will exchange the way to let WindowsXP speed up the boot. This article especially from hardware and software, software program security and certain risks, from simple and relatively complex aspects on how to speed up the XP boot time to make a summary, so that novice rookie can also operate Windowsxp system simply and safely.
a, a desktop or control panel settings (security)
1) removal of gorgeous bloated appearance
remove the "wallpaper", "screen Saver", delete the extra Desktop icon. If it is WinXP, you can right-click "My Computer", select "Properties → Advanced", click "Settings" in the "Performance" item, and select "Adjust to Best Performance".
2) regular maintenance system
if installed on your system, delete too many games, too many applications, too many old data, make your computer run faster more The slower the start, the longer the boot time. Therefore, it is best to do a comprehensive maintenance of the computer at regular intervals (usually 1-3 months). Click "Start" → "Programs" → "Accessories" → "System Tools", use the disk cleaning and defragmentation inside to do a comprehensive maintenance of the computer, pay attention to the disk where the system is located when defragmenting the disk, so that In order to really speed up the Windows boot sequence.
3) reduce the pre-start time
(1) Open the "System Properties" (in my computer right click - properties, or open the "System" in the Control Panel, Shortcuts Win+pausebreak) Click the "Advanced" tab, open "Settings" in the "Startup and Recovery" area, remove the two ports in the "System Startup" area, if the multi-system user keeps "display operating system list" The time is set, and the inside is set to 5.
(2) If you do not want to start the scroll bar appears, you can click Back in the "Edit" button, open the "boot" editing area, behind fastdetect at boot Notepad plus /noguiboot, This will not display the scroll bar again at startup. If you really like the display of this scroll bar, you don't have to do this step.
4) to expand the virtual memory capacity
If your hard drive is large enough, then you open the "Control Panel" in the "System" to open the "virtual memory" performance "option ", select the second item: the user sets the virtual memory setting, points to a less-used hard disk, and sets the maximum and minimum values to a fixed value, about twice the size of physical memory. In this way, when the virtual memory uses the hard disk, it does not need to accommodate the difference between the big and the small, and the fixed space is used as the virtual memory to speed up the access speed. The setting of virtual memory is best done after "disk defragmentation", so that virtual memory is not in a continuous, non-fragmented file space, which can work better.
5) remove the Windows boot logo.
Click the "Start" → "Control Panel" → "Folder Options" and check the "View" tab in the "Advanced Settings" list box "Show all files." Then open the c drive, find the msDOS.sys file, and cancel its "read-only" attribute, open it, under the "option" paragraph, add a line of statements: logo=0, so the Windows boot pattern will not be Load run.
can also click on - Start - Run: enter msconfig, and then find the boot.ini, inside the /bootlog tick.
6) the desktop icon will be too much trouble there are too many icons on the desktop
will reduce system boot speed. Every time Windows starts and displays the desktop, you need to find the icons of the desktop shortcuts one by one and load them. The more icons, the more time it takes. It is recommended that you put the less commonly used desktop icons in a special folder or simply delete them.
(Tip): Some antivirus software provides the system starts scanning feature, which will cost a lot of time, in fact, if you have opened real-time monitoring anti-virus software, then start scanning the system becomes Something is superfluous, or disable this feature.