Help-Long delay to start up [Archive] - PC Tools Community Forum

reghakr

08-25-2001, 05:37 PM

General tips include:

First go to Start>Settings>ControlPanel>Automnatic Updates and turn off automatic updates. choose I will update my computer manually.

Then right-click on the icons in the tray area, open each, go through the options to turn off the "tray" or "run at startup" feature.

For the others, go to Start>Run, type msconfig. Leave systray, scan registry, Load Power Profile (both),*StateMgr, your virus scanner and firewall if you have one.

Go to Start>Run, type notepad c:\windows\win.ini and check for programs loading here:
[windows]
load=
run=

Open Explorer and navigate to c:\windows\temp and delete all files here. Empty the Recycle Bin

Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools>InternetOptions, click the Delete Files and Clear History buttons. Now open Windows Explorer to the C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 folder and verify there are no files in the folders by right-clicking on them and chooseing properties. You should only have 4 cryptic-named folders under the content.ie5 directory. If you have more, delete them all. The folders will be rebuilt when you restart Windows.

Close all tray applications and hit Alt_Ctl_Del and end task on all items except for explorer and systray, disable your screensaver, then run scandisk, then defrag.

If you don't know what an entry is or what it does, post back.
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I have not tested any of the following, so you're on your own here. Personally, I don't like speed tweeks, but Windows ME needs all the help it can get.

Making WinME Sing:
By: Michael Johnston
Date: January 16, 2001

Summary:
Having noticed a good performance increase after applying the changes Digital suggested in his article, Make ME Dance, along with installing TweakUI, to increasing the menu popup speed, I knew there had to be more ways to make this OS "sing". I had tried most of the tweaking utilities, and wasn't happy with the results. So I took a good look around the internet, and found a ton of suggestions. Some worked, some made it worse. What I plan on doing here, is to show you, out of all the suggestions I found, what worked on "My" machine. These changes had made a dramatic increase in system speed, and performance. Ready to get to work?

Teaching ME to Sing:
First, make sure you back-up All of these files before changing them, (just in case).
The first file we want to edit is MSDOS.SYS. This is a read only file, as well as a hidden file. So before you can edit it, you need to do 2 things to be able to do so.
First, open Windows Explorer, On the top toolbar, chose "Tools","folder options", then click on the View tab. Check "Show hidden files and folders", and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files", and click Apply, then Ok.
Next, do a file search for MSDOS.SYS. Right click on it, and select "properties". You need to uncheck "read only",Then click Apply and Ok. After changing the file attributes, double click on MSDOS.SYS, it should open in notepad. (If this doesn't work, hold the shift key down while right clicking on the file will give you an "open with"... option, select this and choose open with notepad). The changes that can be made are as follows.

Make these changes under [Options]:
Dblspace=0 (This tells ME not to load the DoubleSpace compression . Do not use this if you are using have a compressed drive)

Drvspace=0 (This tells ME not to load the DriveSpace compression . Do not use this if you are using have a compressed drive)

Logo=0 (This disables the start-up logo , reducing load time. If you really like the Windows logo, don't use this setting)

Bootdelay=0 (This tells ME to go directly to boot up with no delay)

Disablelog=1 (This disables event logging. If you wish to log your boot sequence, to find errors, do not use this setting)

Doublebuffer=X ( If you have a large FAT32 partition(10 Gigs or more) or a SCSI harddrive, I recommend that you use a setting of 1 for the X. If you have a FAT32 partition, (under 10 Gigs), or are using FAT16, disable this by inserting a 0 for the X).

Next, search for the System.ini file so we can edit that one too.

Change or add these settings under [386Enh]:
DMABufferSize=64 This ensures that your DMA devices always have enough memory allocated. (Note: this is to be used only if you have one or more DMA enabled devices installed and enabled.)

LocalLoadHigh=1 This tells ME to load local drivers into upper memory by default, instead of conventional memory. (Note: Recommended for those systems with less than 128MB of RAM only.)

PageBuffers=32 This setting buffers the hard drive to RAM which is more efficient than letting Windows dynamically handle the buffer .

Change or add these settings under [vcache]:
Minfilecache= ? Set the minimum value to 10% of your installed system RAM, multiplied by 1024. (Example: 256 x .10 = 25.6 x 1024 = 26214)

Maxfilecache= ? Set the maximum value to 25% of your installed system RAM, multiplied by 1024. (Example: 256 x .25 = 64 x 1024 = 65536)

Chunksize= ? The most commonly used values are 128, 256, 512, 1024, and 2048 . On WinMe,1024 seems to work the best.(Note: if you have a very large Harddrive, (30Gigs and up), you may want to set this value to either 2048 or 4096).

Virtual Memory settings:
I have never liked Windows controlling my Virtual Memory settings. I always set my own. It seems to help quite a bit.
To adjust this setting, right click on the My Computer Icon on the desktop, select properties, then click on the performace tab then Virtual Memory.
Click, "let me set own virtual memory settings."

Under Hard disk: select which drive to set want your virtual memory set to run on.
*(Note: It is recommended that if you have a secondary hard drive that is of the same speed as drive C:\ (example: 2 hard drives that are both UDMA 66) that you select the secondary drive to set up your Virtual Memory on as this is more efficient).
Set both the Minimum, And Maximum settings to a setting of approximately 2.5 times your installed RAM as a good starting point.( I personally have mine set to 700 for both Min and Max settings with 256 Megs RAM installed and it works great.)
After entering the new values, click ok.
Windows will ask you if you really want to do this. SAY YES. Then re-boot.

Environmental Variables:
Next, we need to add the following strings, and values to the Environmental Variables tab in the System Configuration Utility.
Go to Start/Run, Type, MSCONFIG, and click ok.
Once the System Configuration Utility loads, click on the Environment Tab and click New.
Enter in the "Variable Name" field: Stacks
Enter in the "Variable Value field": 0,0 Then click OK. (This speeds up the Windows kernel.)
Repeat the procedure and enter these values also.
In the Variable Name field: Enter: DOS
In the Variable Value field: Enter: high,umb Then click OK. (This helps conserve system resources.)
Make sure you apply these changes by placing a check mark in the box next to them after they are created.

reghakr