Re: winxp home slow boot

"crazyal" <crazyal12@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1167589771.293096.256310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hi i am having trouble with my laptop, it takes about 30 seconds to
login from when you click on a user name,
it should not take this long because our older 1ghz athlon takes about
5 secs and thats with 256 mb of ram

I have all the latest updates, done defrag, disk cleanup, msconfig
ect...
and this is my computer specs:

acer aspire 3003WLMI
Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ (1.80 GHZ)
1024mb of ram (1 gigabite)
60GB hard drive (i think its 5400rpm)
windows xp home (all the latest updates)

i would appreciat any help its driving me mad!!!



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.

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

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

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