Quickly enter the Windows XP operating system for 20 seconds.
BIOS optimization settings of 1. motherboard
Turn off redundant IDE channels, USB devices and other hardware, which can be shielded with "None". Use IDE Hard Disk Auto-Detection to automatically detect hard disks. No memory detection, open all caches, enter Advanced CMOS Settings, and set "Quick Start" to "Enable", so that the memory above 1MB will not be detected.
"ide0master/slavepio/DMA mode, ide 1master/slavepio/DMA mode" hard disk sequence (mode) is all set to "automatic".
Enter the "Advanced BIOS Function" option, move the cursor to the "First Boot Device" option, and select "HDD-0" to boot directly from the hard disk, which takes several seconds. Move the cursor to Quick POST and set it to Enabled. Set to "Disabled" for "Start floppy disk search". It is suggested that the memory bank with good memory quality should be set to "2" in the "SDRAM CAS Latency" option.
Tip: The English name of the setting with the same effect may be different in different motherboard BIOS.
2。 Network card settings
When entering the operating system, the system will search the IP address of the network card. If the IP address of the network card is set to automatically obtain, the system will search the DHCP server in the network to obtain the IP address, which invisibly prolongs the startup time. If it is not necessary, it is best to specify the IP address of the network card.
3. Open the DMA transfer mode of the hard disk.
Right-click "My Computer → Properties → Hardware → Device Manager →IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller → Find the IDE channel where the hard disk is located → Properties → Advanced Settings" on the desktop to open the transfer mode of hard disk DMA and speed up data reading and writing (Figure 3). The settings of Win98 and WinME are basically the same, just check the DMA option.
Reduced BIOS ROM
There are some unnecessary files in the motherboard BIOS ROM, which can be deleted by BIOS editing tools such as CBROM and AwardFlash. Note: this is a dangerous operation, and novices had better not move.
5. Delete redundant self-starting programs.
This is the obvious method. Click Start → Run, enter msconfig in the dialog box that appears, and then click OK to bring up the system configuration utility (only for Win98 and WinXP systems, Win2000 users need to copy MSCONFIG.EXE into the system folder to use or use the registry editing method described later).
Click the "Start" tab and remove the "√" in front of the program that does not need to be started automatically. Generally, you only need to leave ctfmon (input method icon), system tray (volume icon) and antivirus program. Only "ctfmon" is left in the author's computer (Figure 4), which can shorten the startup time by about 10 second.
6. Optimize the system properties of components (Win98/WinME)
Right-click My Computer, select Properties → Performance → File System, select Floppy Disk, and remove "Search for a new floppy disk drive every time you start the computer"; Select "hard disk", change "main purpose" to "network server", and adjust "read ahead optimization" to full speed (Figure 5); Select "CD-ROM", adjust the cache to the maximum, and select "Four times or higher speed".
7. Modify IDE channel control (WinXP)
Right-click my computer → Properties → Hardware → Device Manager → expand the IDE ATA/ATAP controller, double-click the option of the auxiliary IDE channel, select the tab of advanced settings in the pop-up dialog box, and change the original "automatic detection" in device 0 and device 1 to "none". The modification method of "main IDE channel" is the same. After restarting, the scrolling time of the scroll bar will be significantly reduced.
8. use BootVis software to improve the startup speed
BootVis (download address: www.skycn.com/soft/7766.html) is a startup acceleration software specially developed by Microsoft for WinXP, which is safe to use and can obviously improve the startup speed. Due to space reasons, the specific usage will not be introduced here. Interested friends can check the help file.
9. Get rid of the gorgeous and bloated appearance
Remove "wallpaper" and "screen saver" and delete redundant desktop icons. If it is WinXP, you can also right-click my computer, select Properties → Advanced, click Settings in the performance item, and select Adjust to Best Performance (