I have just accidentally found out another way to give you an extra boost in windowsXP's boot performance. This is done by disabling your unused devices in Device Manager.
for example, if you don't have input devices that are connected to one of your USBs or COM ports, disabling them will give you an extra perfromance boost in booting.
Yes i've tried this. I've disabled every devices that currently has no use for my pc and it worked great. My booting time is much faster than before.
Go to Control Panel -> System -> Hardware tab -> device manager
Disable devices that you don't use for your PC and then restart. Good luck!
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It's better to disable serial, parallel, & firewire ports in your BIOS as with any other hardware you don't use. However, disabling unused USB ports would increase the complexity of say plugging in a flash drive every now and again. To get into your system's BIOS restart your computer and while the screen is black press F1 - F12, & Del usually that will active your BIOS, but it depends on the motherboard. For example on some systems, F11 is restore, and F8 a boot menu.
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