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Ken
Hi, All,
I believe I might have a problem with my eight month old
Dell 5150 laptop
(Pentium 4\HT,500 MB RAM, Win XP Home Ed.)
The system basically works well, although it takes over
two minutes to boot up. There are no error messages, etc.
I've been surfing the 'net out of curiosity, and I have
found a number of web sites that suggest "tweaks" to
speed up boot time. (I HAVE NOT TRIED ANY OF THESE YET,
and I haven't made any changes to my Boot.ini or other
boot files, or my Registry!!)
One of the tweaks suggested is to make sure the feature
is enabled that allows Win XP to do a Boot Defrag, by
checking the Registry for the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFun
ction
and make sure the value for "Enable" is set to "Y"
When I checked the appropriate Registry key on my system
this is what I see:
(Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
Enable REG_SZ Y
<no entry for TimeFileStamp>
LcnEndLocation REG_SZ <this is blank>
LcnStartLocation REG_SZ <this is blank>
OptimizeComplete REG_SZ No
OptimizeError REG_SZ missing registry
entries
Does this mean that my machine has never succesfully
completed a Boot Defrag?
Is ther anything I can do to find out what the "missing
registry entries" are, and how to either restore them or
clear the registry keys so the system tries again to do
the defrag?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks!
Ken
I believe I might have a problem with my eight month old
Dell 5150 laptop
(Pentium 4\HT,500 MB RAM, Win XP Home Ed.)
The system basically works well, although it takes over
two minutes to boot up. There are no error messages, etc.
I've been surfing the 'net out of curiosity, and I have
found a number of web sites that suggest "tweaks" to
speed up boot time. (I HAVE NOT TRIED ANY OF THESE YET,
and I haven't made any changes to my Boot.ini or other
boot files, or my Registry!!)
One of the tweaks suggested is to make sure the feature
is enabled that allows Win XP to do a Boot Defrag, by
checking the Registry for the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFun
ction
and make sure the value for "Enable" is set to "Y"
When I checked the appropriate Registry key on my system
this is what I see:
(Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
Enable REG_SZ Y
<no entry for TimeFileStamp>
LcnEndLocation REG_SZ <this is blank>
LcnStartLocation REG_SZ <this is blank>
OptimizeComplete REG_SZ No
OptimizeError REG_SZ missing registry
entries
Does this mean that my machine has never succesfully
completed a Boot Defrag?
Is ther anything I can do to find out what the "missing
registry entries" are, and how to either restore them or
clear the registry keys so the system tries again to do
the defrag?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks!
Ken