W2K Boot up time - is 60 seconds short or long ? seems like

#1 David here

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Posted 23 July 2001 - 02:26 PM

My old WinME setup would go from "turn on the power switch to desktop in about 35 seconds.

W2K takes about 60 seconds to do the same.

Is this a quick or slow boot-up ?

Is there ANY way to make it noticably quicker ?

David

#2 rgodart

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Posted 23 July 2001 - 02:40 PM

It's a normal bootup, and there is nothing to do about it i'm afraid.

#3 AndyFair

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Posted 23 July 2001 - 04:49 PM

You could try disabling some of the non-essential services, but that would only shave off a couple of seconds off the boot time.

Like rgodart says, there's nothing you can do about it - just learn to live with it. On the upside, I find that the bootup time is just long enough to pour a beer (unless I'm at work, in which case it's just long enough to go and get a cup of coffee

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Posted 23 July 2001 - 05:20 PM

xp boots much faster

#5 DavidNewbould

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Posted 23 July 2001 - 06:48 PM

Win2k is the slowest thing i have ever seen boot

Jeez, linux is faster

XP boots in about 15 seconds, to logon screen, after entering password, about 3-4 seconds to fully loaded desktop.

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Posted 23 July 2001 - 08:46 PM

i think NT4 was slower to boot than 2k

#7 Almghty

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Posted 25 July 2001 - 08:54 AM

really?

i haven't seen XP

but i thought 30-35 secs was great in win2k

mine might even be lower ..25 perhaps.

the thing that helped me speed up was

allocating a static ip address to my nic ..

i have a via chipset so i got all the proper stuff
correct ata100 drivers

and that was what sped it up.

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Posted 25 July 2001 - 12:49 PM

NT4 is definatley a ballache when it comes to booting up.
Hell, its quite easy to become an alcoholic waiting for NT4 to boot up

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Posted 25 July 2001 - 05:26 PM

HAHAA

nice touch yakkob

its true though

#10 Brian Frank

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Posted 25 July 2001 - 09:08 PM

Some devices can prolong boot up some times, SCSI being one example, but not always.

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Posted 25 July 2001 - 09:11 PM

my raid bios is kinda long but i haven't rebooted this thing in two weeks so i kinda don't care either.

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Posted 29 July 2001 - 10:53 PM

at least with Win2k you won't have to reboot too much, I mean with WinME you probably rebooted a couple of times a day!

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Posted 01 August 2001 - 06:19 PM

Well after reading the replies to this post curiosity got the better of me and I shutdown and timed my start up. A few things have come to my attention.

1) My start up complete came to 2 min 29 sec.
2) 60 seconds would be like the jump to light speed for me
3) I can get a coffee , newspaper from the corner variety store, and learn to play "Rapsody in Blue" during my boot time.
4) and yes you could become an alchoholic..........Burrrp!

Sorry must go; I'm going to reboot now and during the process find the nearest AA chapter.