Re: winxp home slow boot

"Kevin Brunt" wrote

My reply/criticism is shown in between the lines!!

Rock wrote:


Have you done normal maintenance such as a defrag, remove temporary files,
remove temporary internet files, do a disk clean up, etc? Here is a link
with quite a few tips for dealing with a slow computer.

I have yet to come across one person who has managed to speed up the
system by following these simple procedures!!! Have you Rock?

For a slow login do some clean boot troubleshooting to see what's loading at
startup that's slowing things down.

Clean Boot Troubleshooting

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353



Clean boot is a possible solution but windows as it is, invarably this
does not help either for old systems. The only way I have managed to
solve slow systems problems is by doing a clean re-install of OS but
also by making sure the boot drive is only 20GB in size.

hth

It depends on how long it's been since they have done any of this. Yes I have.

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

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