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framerate
13th April 2006, 11:15 PM
as per my thread on apple here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=443340

Anyone else experience SUPER SLOW boot time on winXP? Like... 45+ seconds of the loading screen then 1-2 minutes of black screen before the blue "welcome screen" ?
cnakeitaro
13th April 2006, 11:40 PM
I've experienced this, but it doesn't bother me. Windows runs just as fast as it should when its all booted. I think it has something to do with the way Boot Camp boots the OS.
diamondsw
14th April 2006, 07:31 AM
I have seen this one time (of course it was when showing it off to a PC-using friend). No idea why it happened, and it hasn't shown up since.
cnakeitaro
14th April 2006, 07:13 PM
I have seen this one time (of course it was when showing it off to a PC-using friend). No idea why it happened, and it hasn't shown up since.

I guess there's a difference. Mine is permanently booting slow, altho I don't rly much care. Like I said, it runs great once everything is booted. It might have to do with software you install that "becomes a part of windows". Like Norton..... No software really seems independent of Windows anymore like it is in MacOSX.
sud0n1m
14th April 2006, 07:42 PM
One way to make the booting slow is if you have joined the computer to a domain. If you are not connected to that network but a network card is activated, it will try and connect to the authentication server. This takes a realllly long time to time out. One thing to try is deactivating your wireless and wired nic and restarting. If it is not slow any more, thats your problem.
gygysamurai
14th April 2006, 11:08 PM
I've been using windows since 3.1

trust me, that's windows. Every install is different, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you get hit with the slow-boot-up stick
bdj21ya
15th April 2006, 01:47 AM
One way to speed this up is to never shut windows down. Hibernating uses the same amount of power (none) and boots up way faster. This way, when you turn on the computer, and boot into windows, it just loads exactly how it was when you hibernated. The added bonus is that you are always just where you left off.

I have my power management settings (in the control panel) set so that when I push the power button, it hibernates.