Reduce Windows XP Boot Time
Most Windows XP users are probably familiar with Task Manager. You can bring up Task Manager by right clickingTaskbar and selecting Task Manager from the menu. The other way to bring it up is by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del and clicking on the Task Manager button on the Windows XP login dialogue box.
Task Manager displays a list of all running processes in under the Process tab. However it can also display CPU Time and Memory Peak Usage. These categories are not displayed by default in Task Manager. To display these fields you will need to click on View->Select Columns… .When I encounter users complaining about system boot times the first thing I usually do is launch Tash Manager and investigate these two categories under.
The screenshot above displays the two categories in Task Manager that could help reduce system boot time.
MSCONFIG
Once I identify the processes with the highest scores I fire up msconfig via Start->Run.
From the msconfig dialogue box click on the Start up tab and uncheck the items that were identified from first step barring the processes you’re unchecking are not critical to the system or applications that require services to ran at start up.
Click on the image for a detailed look.
Reboot to apply the changes. Hopefully if the correct processes were identified you would’ve reduce system boot time of your system.