First of all, this tweak only apply to those who only
have one HDD on their primary IDE channel (nothing else
on device 0 or 1) and a CD-ROM and/or DVD-ROM on the
secondary IDE channel. Each time you boot Windows XP,
there's an updated file called NTOSBOOT-*.pf who appears
in your prefetch directory (%SystemRoot%\Prefetch) and
there's no need to erease any other files as the new
prefetch option in XP really improves loading time of
installed programs. We only want WindowsXP to boot
faster and not decrease its performance. Thanks to Rod
Cahoon (for the prefetch automation process...with a
minor change of mine) and Zeb for the IDE Channel tweak
as those two tricks, coupled together with a little
modification, result in an EXTREMELY fast bootup:
1. Open notepad.exe, type "del
c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the
quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\
2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type
"gpedit.msc".
3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer
Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in
the right window.
4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your
"ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".
5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.
6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type
"devmgmt.msc".
7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select
"Properties".
9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device
0 or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select
'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".
10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select
"Properties" and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.
WindowsXP should now boot REALLY faster.Labels: BOOTING, fast booting of xp |
