Making Windows Boot Faster

There is a great resource on making the ever-slowing Windows XP boot up go faster next time. Noteworthy is the Prefetch option which allows you to control how XP prefetch an application.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]

Under this key you should see a value named: EnablePrefetcher

It has 4 possible values:

0 - Disabled : The prefetch system is turned off.

1 - Application : The prefetch only caches applications.

2 - Boot : The prefetch only caches boot system files.

3 - All : The prefetch caches boot, and application files.


More on:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/09/why-windows-takes-so-long-to-start-up.html