Re: Time Taken to Boot

["Mark A. Biggar" <mark@biggar.org>]

Nick Roberts wrote:

> "Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message
> news:bksdr3$2vhi$3@gavrilo.mtu.ru...
> 
> 
>>...
>>XP is rather fast. The main time spent is to start the service
>>daemon executables.
> 
> 
> That's interesting. I have no experience of booting XP, but I have observed
> booting NT 4 from a network take more than 100 seconds. I cannot say whether
> it was the particular network or configuration that was causing a special
> delay (it was a part of the British government's huge 'corporate' intranet).
> 
> 
>>Only a minority need the complex init paths - IDE, for instance,
>>due to compatibility with some obsolete CD drives.
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> 
> I know some CD drives can take ages to intialise. I think the clear solution
> is to have the CD driver (including its initialisation routine) execute in
> parallel with the rest of the boot procedure. Of course, this won't help if
> you are booting /from/ a CD!
> 
> 
>>>If the user can shutdown and reboot quickly ...
> 
> 
>>This is how hibernate works.
> 
> 
> Yes, I thought I had read about the scheme I described, somewhere (but I
> don't remember where), a long time ago. I guess that's it. It seems fairly
> obvious.

A large percentage of windows boot time is reading and parsing the 
registry.  Which brings up the issue that the windows registry is one
of the biggest problems with security in Windows.  A folder with
separate files for each program/service would not only be faster but
would help with the security problems as well.

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