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Originally Posted by Ramrod
Holy cow  How did you manage that? |
First, go into your bios setup and turn off the ide channels you are not using. Then if you're feeling brave you can manually configure the settings for your hard drive so the bios doesn't try to detect the settings at startup (I didn't have to do this because my hard-drives aren't connected to the motherboard ide controller).
Then you need to find all of the startup locations in windows and turn off everything you don't need, because I don't use windows much I need practically nothing.
Then, if you don't need it turn off the network. If you're connected to a router by nic then use a static ip rather than dhcp.
Turn off the graphical loading screen.
Finally, rather than use the explorer interface use something like geoshell or litestep (I use the former).
et voila, grossly reduced startup time
