W2K Boot up time - is 60 seconds short or long ? seems like

[David here 0]

My old WinME setup would go from "turn on the power switch to desktop in about 35 seconds.

 

W2K takes about 60 seconds to do the same.

 

Is this a quick or slow boot-up ?

 

Is there ANY way to make it noticably quicker ?

 

David

[rgodart 0]

It's a normal bootup, and there is nothing to do about it i'm afraid.

[AndyFair 0]

You could try disabling some of the non-essential services, but that would only shave off a couple of seconds off the boot time.

 

Like rgodart says, there's nothing you can do about it - just learn to live with it. On the upside, I find that the bootup time is just long enough to pour a beer (unless I'm at work, in which case it's just long enough to go and get a cup of coffee )

 

AndyF

[Four and Twenty 0]

xp boots much faster

[DavidNewbould 0]

Win2k is the slowest thing i have ever seen boot

 

Jeez, linux is faster

 

XP boots in about 15 seconds, to logon screen, after entering password, about 3-4 seconds to fully loaded desktop.

[Four and Twenty 0]

i think NT4 was slower to boot than 2k

[Almghty 0]

really?

 

i haven't seen XP

 

but i thought 30-35 secs was great in win2k

 

mine might even be lower ..25 perhaps.

 

the thing that helped me speed up was

 

allocating a static ip address to my nic ..

 

i have a via chipset so i got all the proper stuff

correct ata100 drivers

 

and that was what sped it up.

[yakkob 0]

NT4 is definatley a ballache when it comes to booting up.

Hell, its quite easy to become an alcoholic waiting for NT4 to boot up

[CrazyKillerMan 0]

HAHAA

 

nice touch yakkob

 

its true though

[Brian Frank 0]

Some devices can prolong boot up some times, SCSI being one example, but not always.

[Four and Twenty 0]

my raid bios is kinda long but i haven't rebooted this thing in two weeks so i kinda don't care either.

[pmistry 0]

at least with Win2k you won't have to reboot too much, I mean with WinME you probably rebooted a couple of times a day!

[illusionist 0]

 

Well after reading the replies to this post curiosity got the better of me and I shutdown and timed my start up. A few things have come to my attention.

 

1) My start up complete came to 2 min 29 sec.

2) 60 seconds would be like the jump to light speed for me

3) I can get a coffee , newspaper from the corner variety store, and learn to play "Rapsody in Blue" during my boot time.

4) and yes you could become an alchoholic..........Burrrp!

 

Sorry must go; I'm going to reboot now and during the process find the nearest AA chapter.