Octavian,
because it takes minutes until I can really use Windows after the computer starts.
I assume you are searching the wrong direction:Your first goal is to make the Server startup time faster. As allways, there are some questions: 1) how long do you the sytem max. expect from power-on to ready-to- use? 10 sec? 1 min? 3 min? 15 min? 2) have you measured the total startup-time so far, can you count different periodes? (BIOS, OS, different services?)
3) can you avoid it at all? (do not shut down the server?)maybe _after_ all these questions you will come back to shared servers, or you will need some high availibility solutions.
hth Martin -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l