The next step is crucial. Open the hardware tab in the system properties, open the device manager, expand the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller, double-click to open the auxiliary IDE channel properties, and click the Advanced Settings tab to change the transmission mode of the devices 1 and 2 to DMA. If available, select None as the device type.
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Open the registry (Start-Run -regedit), click My Computer to open search in the edit menu, enter AutoEndTasks, and click Find Next. Double-click to open the found results, and change the "Numerical Data" to 1. Then you can find HungAppTimeout and WaitToKillAppTimeout under AutoEndTasks, and set "numerical data" below 2000. By the way, you can also modify the menu delay time here and find MenuShowDelay under AutoEndTasks. This value is in milliseconds, and if you want to cancel the menu delay, you can set it to 0.
After the modification is completed, click the "Edit" menu to open "Find Next" (shortcut key F3) and install all the results found in the previous method.
Now that the acceleration of power-on and power-off has been completed, restart the computer and feel the feeling of extremely fast startup. Is it OK to turn the scroll bar only once or twice?
After enjoying the fast restart, we will further speed up the startup, open the settings of system properties-advanced-startup and recovery, open the editor in the "system startup" area, and add /noguiboot after fastdetect, so that the scroll bar will not be displayed when starting. If you like the display of this scroll bar very much, you don't have to do this step.
Under the command of Moore's law, the processing speed of CPU in computer is advancing by leaps and bounds. However, we found that the startup speed of the computer did not improve. It usually takes more than 40 seconds from pressing the start button to displaying all icons on the right side of the WinXP taskbar. This is a drop in the bucket compared with the fact that the TV can hear the sound and see the image as soon as it presses the switch.
First, the hardware factors that affect the startup speed
Through practice, it is found that the main accessories that affect the computer startup speed are the motherboard and hard disk, which have little to do with CPU. That is to say, other things being equal, expensive computers and cheap computers start at the same speed.
Motherboard is the "base" of various computer accessories. There are many tasks to be done when starting up, such as self-checking, searching for various ports and various external devices.
And other peripheral devices, which may slow down the startup speed of the system. It is recommended that you connect these peripherals only when necessary. You can connect USB devices after startup.
If the network card is not set properly, it will obviously slow down the system startup speed. If your computer doesn't need a network card, unplug the PCI network card directly, and the integrated network card can be shielded by BIOS to avoid affecting the startup speed. Many motherboards detect integrated network cards much faster than stand-alone network cards, which is one of the reasons why some computers "fake their death" after being turned on and it takes more than one minute to surf the Internet normally.
The main factor that determines the performance of the motherboard is the motherboard chipset, and the main factor that determines the startup speed is the disk performance and driving performance of the motherboard chipset. At present, the main brands of motherboard chipset are Intel, SiS, VIA, ATi and nVIDIA, and Intel and SiS have the best disk performance. Everyone knows that Intel is an IT giant. Occupy more than 60% market share of motherboard chipset. However, SiS is not well-known, and the market share of motherboard chipset is less than 10%, which may be related to insufficient publicity. But on the AMD platform, its disk performance is the best and the price is the cheapest.
The manufacturer will make some special designs to shorten the BIOS self-test time to 5 seconds at most. We can choose different motherboard manufacturers according to our own needs, instead of blindly following the recommendation of dealers.
In addition to POST, the computer startup time is mainly used to read system files from the hard disk. The job of a hard disk is to read and write data on a high-speed rotating disk by moving the magnetic head. Then the higher the disk speed, the more data the head reads in a unit time, which is very beneficial to system startup. In addition, the hard disk with fast seek time and large cache can also significantly improve the startup time.
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Computer is a high-tech product with both software and hardware, and accessory setting and system optimization are also indispensable weapons for starting and speeding up.
Second, the setting and optimization of accessories
BIOS optimization settings of 1. motherboard
Turn off redundant IDE channels, USB devices and other hardware, which can be shielded with "None". Automatic inspection through IDE hard disk automatic detection
Measure the hard disk. 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 (especially the client in the LAN).
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3. Open the DMA transfer mode of the hard disk.
Right-click the desktop "My Computer → Properties → Hardware → Device Manager →IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller → Find the IDE channel where the hard disk is located → Properties → Advanced Settings" to open the DMA transfer mode of the hard disk to speed up data reading and writing. The settings of Win98 and WinME are basically the same, but
You need to check the DMA option.
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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.
Third, Windows system optimization.
1. Delete redundant self-startup programs.
This is the obvious method. Click "Start → Run", enter "msconfig" in the dialog box that appears, and then click "OK" to call up "System Configuration Utility" (only applicable to Win98 and WinXP systems, users of Win2000 need to copy msconfig.e ⅹ e 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. This can shorten the startup time by about 10 second.
2. 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".
3. 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.
4. Use software to improve startup speed
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.