Re: Slow Bootup is annoying

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One big problem you have is that you are using multiple redundant security programs (Norton 360, Zone Alarm, Spybot, "etc."). Not only does this grab enormous amounts of system resources, it compromises your security -- makes you less secure, not more.

You haven't told us anything about the age of your system.

If you want to find out what is using your system resources, open Task Manager.

Malware will often slow a computer's performance.

BTW: Window XP does not start from DOS. Millenium Edition was the last version of Windows that did.
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tjdarth wrote:
For the past month almost, my system has been starting up at a real OLD snails-pace. From the time that I login thpe overall process takes about 30 mins. Way too long for the type of software that I have in here.

1) Office 2007
2) VS 2005/2008
3) VS SQL 2005/2008
4) Norton 360
5) ZoneAlarm
6) SpyBot S&D 1.62; etc . . .

Is there some type of program that can log progra-name, starttime, etc that can give a clue as to what is actually going on?
I realize this may be a tall order since my Win-XP SP3 environment is staring from MS-DOS.

Thanks in advance if someone might know of a possible appl.

Tom J.


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    ... Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance ... security programs (Norton 360, Zone Alarm, Spybot, "etc."). ... If you want to find out what is using your system resources, ...
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    ... Norton 360 has a option to not load all programs immediately at boot. ... If you want to find out what is using your system resources, ...
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