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Delayed Booting
Name: mridhangam Date: November 20, 2005 at 22:40:53 Pacific OS: WIN 2000 NT PRO CPU/Ram: P III 750/512 RAM
Comment:
Can anyone tell me the benchmark for startup time for different machines. My machine with PIII-750 with 512 MB RAM 20GB HDD (Dual Partition with Win 2000 and Linux 9.2) takes approximately about 2 mts to come to the Desktop. I have personally fine-tuned the machine to have as little driver loads as possible during boot and I dont have any system tray software also except Anti-virus. All the other software i load only thru Start Menu. How to increase the bootup speed or my PC bootup time is already correct ? Where to find out ? Thanks Jagannathan Balaji
Name: ham30 Date: November 21, 2005 at 09:57:30 Pacific
Reply:
If you are on a LAN, try temporarily disabling it. I understand it's a common problem for slow booting. Check with the Network forum if you find out that it is.
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