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Enhancing WinXP boot up process

Still running on XP OS on your machine?

Many are times we have had our windows XP desktop or laptop machines taking too long to start up (boot), so i came up with the following steps on how to go by making your windows XP machine boot fast.

Follow the following steps:

1. Open notepad.exe(from start menu select "Run" then type in "notepad"), type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) and save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\
2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc".
3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window.
4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".
5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.
6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".
7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".
9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".
10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.

I hope this helps.... END.
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