RE: Slow startup winxp; 2 min. from from Windows Startup to Welcome sc

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From: MikeO (mike_0x2a.donotspam_at_nomorespam.yahoo.nospam.se)
Date: 08/16/04


Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:21:03 -0700

You might want to try a 3rd party defragger, with some kind of boot
optimization. SP2 replaces lots of key file need for boot and therefore
spreads your boot process all over the disk.

Raxco PerfectDisk and O&O Defrag come to mind.

/mike.

"Karl" wrote:

> I have WINXP PRO on a fast 2.8Ghz computer with 512 MB RAM.
> I have defraggged my harddisks, run a good 3rd party registry cleaner,stopped many (most) programs from starting and yet it takes a full 2 minutes exactly from the Windows is starting up screen until the Welcome screen.Other than that the programs and computer runs great.
>
> Any further ideas? To improve Startup?
>
>



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