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Hey, we got an assignment for tomorrow at school; start a Windows XP machine as fast as possible, with a notepad document in the autostart. With almost no hardware changes, (overclocking is counted as sw), maybe add a little more memory.
They'll be using a timer, and the count is from when we/they press the On button.
1. Set standby mode to S3 in BIOS.
2. Write a program that launches the notepad file whenever it detects coming out of standby.
3. Set the machine to standby just before the test is done.
It should start in 5-15 seconds. This is, of course, probably all illegal in the contest.