Improve startup time xp update#

Just to bring things up to date, my latest Avast program update of 30 March 2017 added a sub-entry to the Enable hardware-assisted virtualization entry called Use nested virtualization where available. But as soon as I saw this and reset Avast, it was flying. I had just recreated the VM in the latest VMware Workstation 12.5.5 direct from the old system backup, only to find it crawled as well.

Improve startup time xp windows 10#

(A Win98SE VM was untouched, and I did manage to remove Tools from the WinXP VM and start tthe VMDK in Virtual Box, but even that began to slow down though it worked at first.) I first noticed the problem just after the Windows 10 updates around March 15, so had been searching the wrong questions, thinking it was a Win10 update problem and being surprised that no one else was reporting the same. It solved the problem of my VMware WinXP VM and all backups suddenly grinding to a near stop. Tried running an xp vm that a colleague had made with workstation and it was set to use 8 cores and it near froze the host. Edit the Enable string value to Y if it is not already set to Y. When boot files are in close proximity to one another, your system will start faster. Updating the tools took around 1.5 hours. There's another way to speed up XP startup: make your system do a boot defragment, which will put all the boot files next to one another on your hard disk. Looks like the main slow point is disk access, with nothing running I can bring up the start menu pretty quick. Tried on a different profile and same, reinstalled VMware and still the same (XP VM slow, Win7 VM fine). I might try a different user profile when this XP finishes updating vmware tools (40 mins into it so far, zzzz) Not sure if related but this morning I also couldn't log in to my host Win10 profile until I tried a windows update (no updates) and then restarted (as suggested on forums). VMware is also saying the vmware tools are out of date and no 3D graphics will be avail. Host machine is around 20% usage and still responds OK. XP task manager shows 100% cpu usage with ~95% kernel times. I moved one of the XP VM's to another host and it goes fine. Your Windows 10 computer will now power up using Fast Startup. Finally, click the checkbox for Turn on Fast Startup and hit save.

I have also tried another two WinXP VM's and they are also slow. When there, select the Choose What the Power Button Does option. I tried closing all other VM's and XP was still slow, tried a XP and host reboot and XP still slow (10 mins to restart XP). The Win 7 machines were still running OK. Today I had two Win 7 machines started and started a Win XP one, the performance on the XP VM was extremely slow or stalled for minutes at a time.

Improve startup time xp windows 7#

I have a number of Windows XP and Windows 7 virtual machines installed on my Win10 host that have worked fine for months.