Yazoo Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 Is it important that XP starts up fully after all cmd's have completed and shutdown is in progress or can the shutdown happen straight away?I set mine to 1 minute but the desktop has not completely loaded at that point so I changed it 2 mins. Is this OK to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 Mike Wilson (who gave me the material to start the Unattended XP CD Site project) used to shutdown immediately, but I caught a quick glimspe of a "Shortcuts being updated" progress bar window. I don't know what else its doing in the background so I thought it would be a safe bet to allow the desktop to fully load before rebooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkyre Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 I wouldn't shutdown immediately. Just as a precautionary step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yazoo Posted September 21, 2003 Author Share Posted September 21, 2003 I see many people set the timer to 60secs, I have tried different settings and it takes roughly 2mins for the whole desktop to start.Why is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0r3d Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 It depends on your PC specs, and all the programs that load on startup. The more programs, the longer it takes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yazoo Posted September 21, 2003 Author Share Posted September 21, 2003 so 2mins isn't really a bad thing then? I do have a lot of apps being installed and I think its the deleting of the folder at the end that delays the startup. Could I add a startup or runonce script to delete this after the shutdown and reboot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0r3d Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 Yep. I dont forsee that being a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 Yazoo, are you currently testing this in Virtual PC? Its normal for VPC to take longer to load the desktop, 1.30 - 3 mins in most cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yazoo Posted September 21, 2003 Author Share Posted September 21, 2003 I tried in VPC and it took well over 3 mins,No the 2 mins is after I burn a CD-RW and install on a fresh HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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