i remember the good ol' days when my windows 98se machine would boot from post to desktop in less than 10 seconds, and everything was faster. i have a new desktop, and new windows, everything. but windows xp is so susceptible to viruses and stuff, i have antivirus and firewalls and stuff, and booting is much slower! even when i turn off and disable those things, it still boots slower! (like 30 seconds or more) my question is, why do new versions of windows boot so much slower on new hardware than old versions of windows did on old hardware?? also, is there any way to get windows to boot as fast as it used to? Toshiba M50-MX2: Celeron M 1.5GHZ 1MB L2 512 DDR2 PC4200 RAM 60GB 5400RPM HDD DVD+/-RW CDRW DVD-RAM

Besides virus', there is Spyware. Do you check for, and remove, Spyware ?? Spyware info.from Microsoft Virus and Spyware scans work better in Windows Safe-Mode. Anti-virus software slowed me down. I only used it for a couple of days. You can uncheck items on the Startup tab in MSCONFIG. To find out what each Startup(or Process) item does or means, and any recommendation as to if you should close the process: Task List Programs

There are many reasons it boots slower. For one the new versions always come out with more programs and usually have most of them turned on. You can go into control panel, admin. tools, services, and turn off any service you do not need. Here is a few that I have turned off. Remember only turn off a few at a time then reboot. If everything seems ok try some more, if not re enable the one that may be giving you problems. Hope this helps. Also delete unneeded programs from your startup folder. 1. Alerter 2. Auto Updates 3. Background Intelligent Transfer Serv 4. Clipbook 5. Com+ Event System 6. Com+ System Application 7. Computer Browser 8. Distributed Llink Tracking 9. Dns Client 10. Indexing Service 11. Ipsec Services 12. Net Logon 13. Network Location Aware 14. Qos Rsvp 15. Remote Desktop Help 16. System Event Notifications 17. Tcpip Netbios Help 18. Terminal Services 19. Windows Image Acquisition 20. Windows Time 21. Error Reporting 22. Messenger 23. Network DDE 24. Network DDE DSDM 25. Performance Logs & Alerts 26. Web Client 27. Windows Time

Try Bootvis, if you are that concerned. I don't really see what the big deal is here, 20 seconds or 40 seconds, what does it matter. Afterall, it's not like you are loosing valuable time.

I got a new computer last August that I thought was somewhat slow to boot. It booted significantly faster after after I removed the preinstalled stuff (Norton, McAfee, AOL), defragmented the drive, and installed AVG AntiVirus.

You could invest a thousand dollars or so and upgrade your machine to a duel core and maybe save 15 seconds on your boot times. I load a lot of programs on startup.....and my machine takes a whopping 1 minute to boot up. I think you should be more concerned how your machine is running after bootup rather than worry about the few seconds your losing. To answer your question yes you could probably get your machine to boot as fast as Windows 98, by taking the advice above and turn off some services and invest in hardware to increase your speed. The advantages of using Windows XP far outway the extra time it might take to boot up.

I really, really doubt that you had a Whinehoed98 machine that booted in 10 seconds. Just for the record.