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Windows XP Hacks: Speed Up Boot and Shutdown Times

PublisherOReilly Media
Format326.1KB PDFDate added11 Feb 2005
Topics Windows XP
Downloads5988 popular

There's a simple way to speed up XP startup: make the system do a boot defragment, which will put all the boot files next to one another on the hard disk. When boot files are in close proximity to one another, the system will start faster. On most systems, boot defragment should be enabled by default, but it might not be on one's, or it might have been changed inadvertently.

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