What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
My bootup speed is annoyingly slow. I know there are a few tips n tricks for reducing the time it takes to reach the desktop from the initial power on.
But what are the most effective of these tricks or hacks?
My details:
Windows XP Home running on a 256RAM, 2.5Ghz P4 laptop (with wireless internet). The computer is used mostly for surfing and P2P.
Re: What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
Re: What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
Adding more RAM would certainly help.
Re: What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
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clocker
Adding more RAM would certainly help.
How much more RAM ?
Cause i have now 2 gb of RAM and din't see any difference, i can compare to my computer at weekend house which has around 500 gb, no difference with same XP.
Re: What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
Basically avoid too many things or unecessary things in your startup.
I use ccleaner to check them occasionally (tools button), and remove unecessary services http://www.overclockersclub.com/guid...services_2.php
Re: What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
All u need to do is select adjust for best performance in xp, i do that in every windows xp cause i don't like those effects anyway.
Re: What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
ahhah that has nothing to do with boot times limesqueezer
Re: What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
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sandia911
What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
My bootup speed is annoyingly slow. I know there are a few tips n tricks for reducing the time it takes to reach the desktop from the initial power on.
But what are the most effective of these tricks or hacks?
My details:
Windows XP Home running on a 256RAM, 2.5Ghz P4 laptop (with wireless internet). The computer is used mostly for surfing and P2P.
get hold of a piece of software called startup monitor...when activated this will prompt you that a certain program wants to run on startup and you have the option of accepting or declining this.
also if you have a large hdd partition the drive so windows partition is about 12gb.
i run windows on 10gb partition and all software etc is installed on the other partitions. just a thought tho but definitly get startup monitor.
you can also go start>run>msconfig and untick any programs which you dont want at start up.
hope it helps.
Re: What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
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Originally Posted by
limesqueezer
Quote:
Originally Posted by
clocker
Adding more RAM would certainly help.
How much more RAM ?
Cause i have now 2 gb of RAM and din't see any difference, i can compare to my computer at weekend house which has around 500 gb, no difference with same XP.
I don't think that clocker was talking about your system. He was answering the thread starter.
I agree that a system with 256MB of RAM would benefit with at least another 256MB.
Re: What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
limesqueezer
Quote:
Originally Posted by
clocker
Adding more RAM would certainly help.
How much more RAM ?
Cause i have now 2 gb of RAM and din't see any difference, i can compare to my computer at weekend house which has around 500 gb, no difference with same XP.
500gb of ram?