Re: Disabling Fast Boot

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"Tim Haughton" <timhaughton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1137942620.237966.65250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Is it possible to disable fast boot? What I'd like to happen is along
the lines of Linux - when the login screen appears, the hard drive is
silent. Currently, although the login screen appears quickly, the
system is unusable for about a further 45 seconds as the hard drive is
very active as it completes the boot.

I guess I'd like the individual start up tasks to be completed
(preferably with verbose on-screen output) before the login screen
appears. Anyone know if this is possible?


Please explain how any operating system would be able to tell the future. You haven't logged in yet so how would the OS know which profile you would use under which account and which startup items would get loaded under that profile? The consequences of making choices don't happen until you actually make the choices.

There is nothing preventing you from sitting at the computer when the login screen appears to wait for disk activity to quiesce. However, since loading can be concurrent, you will end up waiting longer for the system to quiesce and then wait for all startup programs under your profile to load rather than let them load concurrently. Stopping at a login screen awaiting non-account processes to load is a completely arbitary behavior as it is not required to login.

Sounds like you should be going through the startup process to determine which programs really should not load on startup. Disable or set manual any NT services you don't need or don't use. Configure programs to NOT load on startup that you don't need all the time. For those that don't provide a Windows startup option, use msconfig to disable them. Windows can load much faster if you stop loading a bunch of superfluous software on startup and under your profile on login.

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