Reduce boot up time on NT4

[NT4U]

Hi All,

I am currently running NT4/WS/SP6a on a 1.2 GHz Celeron (not connected to a network) 256 meg RAM, 40 Gig HD. It is a barebone type w/ 56K modem & 16 bit sound card, that is all to it. I am quite satisfied with performance of this machine, but is there a way that I could cut down on the boot up time to a minimum? I mean, disabling drivers that load during the boot up process that I really do not need. It takes about somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 minutes to boot, perhaps I could reduce that to 2 minutes.

Thanks for the input.
Regards,
NT4U

 

[DaPi]

Servers do take a long time (I wish mine would boot in 3 mins!).

You should make sure that you don't have services auto-starting that you don't really need all the time. (e.g. set to manual startup and do a NET START in a batch that needs the service).