Re: Boot straight to MCE 2005

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"Brian MacInnes" wrote

Anando,

Is there a way to move MCE up in its priority order for booting? (Just
to make it boot quicker) I understand that windows needs to be fully
booted, since MCE is just a program that runs off of Windows itself. My
problem is that no matter how fast the system, windows hangs at the
desktop screen for approximately 5-10 secs before MCE starts. It's not
a "big" issue persay, but an annoyance. I would like the machine to
appear to be a standalone MCE machine. I know that in truth that isn't
possible, but there's no way to make it appear that way? If so, this
will be the first software issue without a fix (even difficult fix)
I've ever encountered (usually with some scripting or such you can get
around anything). I know that with in-car PC's, people make their
machines boot to different "front end" GUIs. I know this is different,
but not by much. I guess my real question is, when Windows gets to the
desktop screen, everything important has pretty much already loaded,
the only things left are pretty much startup items (to my knowledge).
Why cant MCE boot up quicker in the timeline, so instead of booting to
the desktop, it boots to MCE. If I have a bare Windows OS with no other
programs, there shouldn't be that much loading itself at boot up
anyways. Thanks again, sorry to be a bother!!

-Brian

There is a lot going on at that time. Windows is initializing a variety of services and starting programs. There really is no way to tell windows to prioritize one particular element. What you could try is eliminate startup programs and those third party services that are not necessary, and see if that helps. Do a clean boot to see what you can accomplish. What anti-virus are you using - a suite product such as from Symantec or McAfee?

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353

--
Rock [MVP Windows Shell/User]

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