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Slow boot up
Name: Scott Pedersen Date: January 21, 2004 at 10:48:55 Pacific OS: 98SE CPU/Ram: P2 64MB
Comment:
How can I get booted up faster. Seems to take a long time. Loading programs seems to take longer than i should too. Seems to me things are maybe loading into memory wrong. Occasionally programs won't load and i have to reboot. I have run win doc and speed disk so disk isnt fragmented. Yea there is some kind of memory problem here. What can I do about it. Thank you
Name: jam14online Date: January 21, 2004 at 11:10:23 Pacific
Reply:
Go into Device Manager and check for any items with an '!' next to them. You will have to upgrade the driver for them.
James
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Response Number 2
Name: Bob (by BigBob) Date: January 21, 2004 at 11:11:38 Pacific
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What do you have booting at start?? Go into start/run/type msconfig/select start up and uncheck what you dont need starting? Also try running adaware see if you may have spyware loading
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Response Number 3
Name: Bob (by BigBob) Date: January 21, 2004 at 11:13:48 Pacific
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Also in run type sfc and see if it comes up ok
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Response Number 4
Name: Derek Date: January 21, 2004 at 16:44:52 Pacific
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If you are not familiar with sfc read this before using it (my stuff + WhitPhil) because it can get things wrong:
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