PC restart time just over a minute.

spakkker

Hi my pc with xp on it will shutdown and restart in one minute 10 secs. I'm fairly happy with this but can anyone tell me if theres anything to make this time reduce farther. The pc is linked to a 2nd by a cable to share internet. Tia.

Honest_Chris

If it hangs slightly while logging off/restarting, you could try UPHclean. It's free, available from microsoft.com and will speed up the time taken for Windows to exit.

Cheers

foreversomeday

Sounds normal, in fact quite speedy to me. Mine takes 2-3 minutes.

colin2002

foreversomeday wrote: »

Sounds normal, in fact quite speedy to me. Mine takes 2-3 minutes.

I agree, Mine takes a good 2 minutes

fas3robinj

I would leave well alone. Often messing with settings has the oposite effect. Mines nearer 3 mins than 1. Most of that is because of resource hungry antivirus and firewall stuff.

Does the time to start really matter, as long as it runs everything well once it's started?

ABH_3

spakkker wrote: »

Hi my pc with xp on it will shutdown and restart in one minute 10 secs. I'm fairly happy with this but can anyone tell me if theres anything to make this time reduce farther. The pc is linked to a 2nd by a cable to share internet. Tia.

You could install a Raptor drive, and maybe do some of the tweaks here: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=235571

HTH

f1charlie

There's me thinking my trusty old 98SE sytem was slow. Just timed a restart and it took 2 minutes. Don't feel so bad now!

emmaroids

tweakxp.com

has some good tips for speeding up your comp :money:

spakkker

Thanks for all replies. I am happy with this time but I'm gratefull to hear how it compared. I've used a bit from this guide http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks1.htm

ormus

42 seconds mine. xp with a 1gb ram and P4 3ghz.
i make sure things like MS, adobe & apple etc. dont phone home every other minute!

spakkker

Hi Ormus -theres still room for improvement for me! Have pent.3.2 and 1GB mem. I hope that people will realise the ongoing penalty of using bloated software. I'll repost any improvement