hi...I have bet with my friend that I can start my computer for 25 seconds...from start button press, to the desktop...can you give me some advice ? thank you in advance please forgive me for the title of the topic --- I made a mistake...

Is this a Desktop or a Laptop? Simplest way is to go to your Power Management and set it to "Stand By" when the power button is pressed and you computer will boot in like 2 seconds. Control Panel -> Advanced (Tab on top) -> Change the "When I press the power button on my computer:" to Stand By.

it`s a desktop...but...standby mode won`t show windows xp boot screen while starting up the computer...

So it only counts if it is a Cold Reboot no Warm Boots. Well then you have to shrink your OS foot print. The only way to do this is to uninstall any Anti-Virus, Drivers, Back Ground Pictures, Screen Savers, Remove struff from your Registry under HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Run, Run Once keys. Make sure there is nothing in the Startup folder in your All Programs Menu and so on. This will make your computer plain and boring though.

ok...this is going to be a video, so I`ll re-enable everything then... more suggestions appreciated...

Already been done check this out... http://video.google.com/videosearch... http://video.google.com/videosearch... http://video.google.com/videosearch... http://video.google.com/videosearch... So, I guess the real question is WHY? Because you are just going to break your computer. Note, none of these guys fire up MS-Office apps or IE to show you that the computer still works. These computers are broken and can not do any things. They cant print use USB or nothing because all of the drivers where yanked just for speed.

shoot the video then edit it to make it look like it's booting in 25 seconds. Much easier than tweaking your computer to try and get to load that fast.