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Warp2Search.net » News » October 2003 » How to make WinXP Pro boot faster?

How to make WinXP Pro boot faster?

Posted by: Newsfactory on: 10/09/2003 05:39 PM [ Print | 13 comment(s) ] · 12547 views

Just spotted this bit of Info at Futuremark's Forum posted by jfitzw!

I dont know about any file that will change it other than bootvis, which never worked for me. one guarunteed way to get faster boots, is to change the prefetch options. do this

start > run > type regedit > navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > Current control set > Control > Session Manager > Memory Management > Prefetch Parameters. change the value in EnablePrefetcher from 3 to 5. reboot and watch the faster speed.





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#48195 Posted on: 10/09/2003 05:46 PM
you you could turn prefetch all the way off and them zoon zoom zoom

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#48196 Posted on: 10/09/2003 05:49 PM
Holy shit. What the hell does this function do? Windows XP just booted in like 2 seconds flat for me!

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#48199 Posted on: 10/09/2003 06:20 PM
Yup, helps very much!

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#48210 Posted on: 10/09/2003 07:27 PM
This tweak and the cpu l2 cache tweak are nothing new. If you have read the various WinXP tweak guide, you would get more info. including any side-effects and stuff.

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#48212 Posted on: 10/09/2003 07:44 PM
Setting the prefetch to 5, I believe will enable prefetching for application launch, but will disable boot prefetching.

If so, that is a bad choice. First of all, prefetching applications isn't needed for most 7200 RPM hard drives.

If you disable the prefetching for boot, then all you are doing is getting through the WindowsXP scroll bar quickly, but then your kernel and start applications will take twice as long to boot once the GUI is loaded.

In otherwords, you will be able to boot past the welcome screen quicker, but the kernel and apps will take much longer to load.

That's not a good trade off to me. I'd rather have my screen take a few seconds longer at the welcome screen, and then have the kernel and GUI load quicker.

I guess it is a matter of preference.

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#48213 Posted on: 10/09/2003 07:47 PM
well what side affect could this have? what kind of problems could this bring up on my comp by doing this "tweak"?

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#48214 Posted on: 10/09/2003 07:55 PM
The L2 cache "tweak" is a placebo. This is determined via the HAL, although with older CPUs with off-die L2 Cache this may not be the case. Basically its for Pre-Pentium 2 CPUs.
For what I'd hope would be everyone here this is a completely useless "tweak" to make, there's absolytely no point to it.

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#48215 Posted on: 10/09/2003 07:57 PM
0 means Windows auto-determines it. So what the guy's saying on the forum about Windows 2000 & XP not detecting it is just wrong.

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#48216 Posted on: 10/09/2003 08:12 PM
i got mine set to 9, but i cant remember why...

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#48219 Posted on: 10/09/2003 09:24 PM
Im gonna reboot and if i dont post back in the next 2 min u can bet it fucked up my pc. ok im gonna do it now!!! BRB!

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#48231 Posted on: 10/09/2003 11:50 PM
DAMM :( I got burned somehow, it must have been cuz im using a BETA TEST VERSION!!! EEERRR had to format the whole thing and use a real version now, thanks u W2S!!!

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#48248 Posted on: 10/10/2003 10:34 AM
Made mine boot slower. It did not load all the startup items either until I set it back to 3.

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#48289 Posted on: 10/11/2003 09:48 AM
9 also has the same effect as 1 or 5. In binary all these numbers end with 01 which means disabling boot pefetching.

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