Re: Slow Start-up

I found a possibility to upgrade my hard drive at
http://www.drivesolutions.com/cgi-bin/shop/ug2store.cgi?command=listitems&kind=cpl&pos=0&type=itemid&itemid=cpl844
It would cost me $130, it's cheaper than buying a new laptop.
But I would loose much time in reinstalling all the programs.
So you advise me to replace the hard drive? it would solve my problem of
slow startup?
The other problems I had were: Outlook takes much time to start up, when I
click on Internet explorer program, it takes 3 seconds to open.

Jacques

"Bob I" wrote:

4200 rpm is excruciatingly slow. I would venture that that is a big part
of the "slow". While it would help with battery life, you will pay the
price in time whenever you need to wait while something has to be
retrieved from disc, like bootup for instance.

Jacques wrote:

AC plugged in.
No HP utility is running.
It's a 4200 RPM.

"Bob I" wrote:


Is that speed with the AC plugged in or is it running on battery? How
much "HP" utilities are being loaded? Is it a 5400 rpm drive or 7200
rpm. Oh so many possibilities!

Jacques wrote:


Very good question.
I have a Compaq Presario laptop 2.4 GHz and 512 MB RAM.

"Leftred" wrote:



"Jacques" <Jacques@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I posted a question a few weeks ago about my laptop taking 6 minutes to
start
up.
A few people told me that it should be 1 minute instead.
When I time the start-up, I don't stop the time when I see the desktop
(which is pretty quick) but when the hard drive light stop to be always on
(meaning that startup programs have finished to load). So for people who
have
a start-up time of 1 minute, did you time it like I did?

Then I followed the advices given on my post, I removed the maximum of
startup items (items that I don't use every day) in msconfig and the
start-up
time became 5 minutes. It was not good enough so I decided to uninstall
ZoneAlarm (Firewall Protection) and use Windows Firewall instead. The
start-up time is now 3 minutes 45 seconds (measured with the hard drive
light
turned off like described above). Is it good enough now?

You don't mention the specs of your laptop. If you have a slow CPU and not
much RAM you should expect a slow boot time. What have you got?







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