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Start up speed Win2k 1
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Just curious, but what part of the startup is 'slow'? Does it seem to crawl at any given portion (the initial GUI progress panel, at logon, desktop load, etc)? Or was this more a generic "make it all faster" question?
A few things I have done: Disable the startup sound or make it a very simple, small sound byte if you want to be sure your sound/speakers are okay all the time.
I had a system running at 133mhz on the bus with mixed PC100 and PC133 memory. Ick. I replace the PC100 with PC133 and it seemed to improve startup. (Special case, but worth a mention.)
Does the machine have a network card? If you are _not_ using it, disable it in the BIOS. No need to init and check the network if you don't use it. Same goes for any other hardware you may have that you don't use.
Current device drivers will help sometimes too. I noted on a Thinkpad I have that when I upgraded the power management drivers that startup seemed to improved a little.
The Startup folder is only one place to poke into - W2K loads services too that you may or may not need. Look in Administrator Tools, Services. The services that start "Automatic" should be reviewed. Use caution and only change ones you are sure you don't need; stuff like auto-checking for version updates for some software. (Grrr... I can do my own checking, thank you!)
If you are on a network and have network drives set as "reconnect at logon", they will slow you down a bit too.
Just some thoughts. Hope these help - Good luck! Jim Vincent
A few things I have done: Disable the startup sound or make it a very simple, small sound byte if you want to be sure your sound/speakers are okay all the time.
I had a system running at 133mhz on the bus with mixed PC100 and PC133 memory. Ick. I replace the PC100 with PC133 and it seemed to improve startup. (Special case, but worth a mention.)
Does the machine have a network card? If you are _not_ using it, disable it in the BIOS. No need to init and check the network if you don't use it. Same goes for any other hardware you may have that you don't use.
Current device drivers will help sometimes too. I noted on a Thinkpad I have that when I upgraded the power management drivers that startup seemed to improved a little.
The Startup folder is only one place to poke into - W2K loads services too that you may or may not need. Look in Administrator Tools, Services. The services that start "Automatic" should be reviewed. Use caution and only change ones you are sure you don't need; stuff like auto-checking for version updates for some software. (Grrr... I can do my own checking, thank you!)
If you are on a network and have network drives set as "reconnect at logon", they will slow you down a bit too.
Just some thoughts. Hope these help - Good luck! Jim Vincent
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