What are the "sure" methods of reducing windows startup time?

[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.

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https://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/t8379...ime+of+XP.html

[clocker]

Adding more RAM would certainly help.

[limesqueezer]

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.

[100%]

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

[limesqueezer]

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.

[suprafreak6]

ahhah that has nothing to do with boot times limesqueezer

[chinook_apache]

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.

[Virtualbody1234]

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.

[tesco]

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?