[RESOLVED] Slow Boot

[ThunderVamp9]

I've been running WinXP for some time now, and have one small problem with it. Boot times are awfully slow. Now, I'm not saying from POST to desktop is slow, that comes in at around 23 seconds. But once it reaches the desktop, it takes at least 1:30 before I can actually do anything. Norton Antivirus sits there disabled, anything I click waits that long before initially opening, nothing happens at all for a full minute and a half after getting to the desktop.

Once that point is reached, the system runs like a top. But it's kinda stupid to be sitting waiting for two minutes from the time I turn my machine on to the time I can actually do anything on it.

Help, please!

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[Jvaguy]

they key is to check whats running in the back ground .. you maybe surprised .. not just from the startup menu .. but from the registery .. id suggest that .. also removed some icons frokm the desktop to like maybe 5-10 .. and defrag also will help

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[jbar1]

If your are running NTFS file system then it is not unusual for this to take place. The faster system is win32 file sys.

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[mlowe]

<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by jbar1:
If your are running NTFS file system then it is not unusual for this to take place. The faster system is win32 file sys.

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There is no such thing as the "win32" file system. There is a FAT32 file system, and NO it is not as fast as NTFS. NTFS was designed from the ground up to be fast on drives as big as 2TB. FAT32 gets significantly slower for larger drives.

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Matt
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[Cobra]

Also following JvaGuy's suggestions, be sure to check what services are running on start-up. These are usually the memory killers and CPU hogs. Usually, 50% of them are things you aren't going to use anyway. Just be careful, you might kill a vital service that something else depends on.

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[Darren Wilson]

Also disable any toolbars that you don;t use often on your taskbar, as you will be suprised how much resources these use (i.e. Quick Launch, Address bar, etc)

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[ThunderVamp9]

OK, for programs I have loading on startup, I only have NAV2002 running. I keep everything else at a bare minimum. I have 20 processes running at startup, which is 4 more than my wife has running on her machine at startup.

I am also using ICS on this machine to share the DSL connection with hers.

Since ICS is the only difference between our machines, could this be the cause? And why would it cause my machine to load 4 more processes than hers? (Wish I could look at what hers are compared to mine, but her PSU died tonight.)

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[DJSEARCHING]

One thing that might have been overlooked.How much memory do you have in your machine?

[ThunderVamp9]

I have 512MB DDR in the machine. It shouldn't be a memory problem.

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[Breakbeat Bob]

Actually, I have had that problem in Win2000. It would load up, but it would take about a minute before I can access any icons. Also I noticed XP runs slow on a lot of machines, except mine. Most new computers I set up are slow as hell, even with a lot of memory. Goes to show you never buy a premanufactured system. Add another user and see if that login has the same problem with loading up.

[ThunderVamp9]

I also had this problem under Win2K. In all other respects, XP is fast as hell on this machine. I have 4 other user accounts on this machine (family) and each of them behaves the same. This is not a pre-manufactured machine. It's home built from the ground up.

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[confus-ed]

ICS! If the client machine isn't on when you boot then your machine will wait to see if there is one lurking somewhere, and keep looking everytime there is some change to your network status, which I think is at least three times during boot. Now how you change the appropriate timeout value is another matter!