Make Windows XP Start Faster |
Ever think it takes too long to boot up in Windows XP? Mike Wendland aptly notes:
One of the greatest frustrations in personal computing is waiting for the machine to boot up.
Fortunately, Mike also links to an ABC News article with a solution for How to Make Windows XP start faster. [original link to article removed because it was broken] Some good tips there.
Update 5/25/05: In the comments, reader and fellow blogger Jose alerted me that the original ABC news link has been removed. Neither of us could locate the original article. If anybody else can locate then please use the comments or trackback to update me and I’ll change it. Sort of makes the rest of this blog entry pointless without the story 
The original link was located here (unlinked because it’s broken): http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=525074
Update 5/26/05: Thanks to Jose’s spelunking, he has located what he believes is the correct article. It’s not the original one I linked to, but it will work. Thank you again, Jose, for unbreaking this post.
Making Windows XP Start Faster:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1768298,00.asp
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I found your blog after noticing you blogmarked mine in BE. I’m fresh new in this blog world so I’m still doing that kind of things
I want to thank you for that blogmark just not because of itself but because it let me find your blog, which I found very interesting and useful, specially in the “how to” category.
In this particular post, I tried following the link but ABC News says the page does not exist. Tried their search too, but with no results. No big deal, of course. Just wanted to let you know, as you may want to fix the link, if possible.
Saludos,
Comment by Jose Lamas — May 25, 2005 @ 11:32 pm PST
Hello Jose - argh! Well the link worked and the article was quite valid when it was originally published (Feb 2005). Some links, unfortunately, that we link to are transient.
I see that ABC has recently updated their site and I couldn’t locate the original article either
I suspect if I ran a 404 checker then there would be a lot more than one broken link of places I’ve linked to. I checked the Wayback Machine and no luck there either. Bummer.
Something new I’ve recently started doing though is using the Yahoo “My Web” which makes a snapshot of each page that I’m linking to in situations like this where I don’t fill in a lot of details. This will come in handy in the future for situations where the publisher removes (or changes) the content. This way we can recall the content and provide a screenshot or reproduce the pertinent parts.
If anybody reading is able to run down this article then please let me know and I’ll update the story with the correct link again.
Comment by TDavid — May 25, 2005 @ 11:46 pm PST
Hi again,
I found what seems to be the same or a similar article, judging from its content and the comments in Mike’s post. It’s on PC Magazine, though. Here’s the link:
Making Windows XP Start Faster
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1768298,00.asp
The article is an excerpt from the book Windows XP Speed Solutions, by Curt Simmons.
Comment by Jose Lamas — May 26, 2005 @ 8:28 am PST