Re: Slow Bootup is annoying

Thanks Dave. I'm going to see about investing in some more ram as well as
clean up my system as others have suggested on this thread.

Tom J.
"Daave" <dcwashNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It tells us you don't have enough physical memory. Your problem can be
solved by purchasing/installing more RAM and/or cutting down on
memory-hungry programs like Norton. As long as you normally don't use
memory-intensive programs (like graphics or video editing, etc.), 1 GB is
actually plenty of RAM. Of course, it's not enough at the moment. ;-)

"tjdarth" <tjdarth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Gerry, my Task Manager Performance (Commit) is as follows as of
8:52pm. this evening
TOTAL: 1487048; LIMIT: 2521648; PEAK: 1523816;
Exactly what does this tell us?

Thanks again . . .
Tom J.
"Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tom

Norton 360!

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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tjdarth wrote:
Thanks Leonard for your quick response. I kind of suspected the
security programs and am in the process of determining which appl.,
is geiving me the most bang for the buck. Strange, I have had no
problem out of any of these applications for the last 6 to 7 years,
but realize someone wants to be boss. As for my system I have an AMD
Athlon XP 2800+ 2.08Ghz w/1gb memory.
My next test is to remove each application one by one and see which
one of these culprits is actually causing me grief.
So if XP is not in 16-bit DOS mode when I choose my OS from the start
menu, then 32-bit has taken over at an earlier point in the startup
process? This is news to me.

Thanks again Leonard.
Tom J.


"Leonard Grey" <l.grey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

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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