Rbreb13 Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 The XP kernel gets going a lot faster than previous versions of Windows,as the boot sequence has been streamlined. As well as remembering what happened during the last boot -- and thus knowing when it's safe to omit diagnostic tests -- the kernel optimises the sequence in which it starts up peripherals, loads files from disk and initialises drivers and protocols. In many cases, it can load multiple components in parallel and start them running without having to wait for previous components to finish their initialisation, and can pre-fetch drivers from disk to be in memory before they are required. XP remembers details of the previous eight boot sequences and knows to stop pre-fetching files that are no longer required, or to modify the sequence when new drivers are added http://www.ntfs.org/articles.php?action=show&id=16 Ah, a little project for a cold winter night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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