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very slow boot up
Name: felixtc Date: November 21, 2005 at 18:59:36 Pacific OS: winme/xp dual CPU/Ram: ahmed thlon/512
Comment:
senms to take a abnormally long time to boot to OS choice screen goes blank (black ie) then when microsoft xp starts loading it also takes an awful long time & the screen again goes blank desktop icons are slow to load too(intermittently)
Name: tiyogi Date: November 21, 2005 at 19:50:16 Pacific
Reply:
what have you checked on your computer?
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Response Number 2
Name: Jay Date: November 22, 2005 at 01:50:41 Pacific
Reply:
Try disabling some startup items. Here's how you do it... Go to Start-> Run-> msconfig Click on the startup tab Uncheck the items that you dont need to be started when the computer boots.(You can uncheck everything if you like to) Click on Apply and Close. And then restart the computer.
Good Luck with that.. Regards, Jay
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Response Number 3
Name: felixtc Date: November 22, 2005 at 05:42:35 Pacific
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thanks Jay but ben there done that long ago is not the problem
felix
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Response Number 4
Name: Chuck 2 Date: November 22, 2005 at 05:57:58 Pacific
Reply:
Possible that the harddrive is not running at its normal speed, freezing up or slowing down. My computer took 20 min. to boot the other day. I was watching the HDD activity indicator light, and it would remain on, and not rapidly blinking. Mechanical devices do have there problems.
Harddrive manufacturers have software for download for testing HDD.
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Response Number 5
Name: Jay Date: November 22, 2005 at 08:35:20 Pacific
Reply:
Hmm... Have you tried disabling the DNS Client Service in the Services?
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Response Number 6
Name: felixtc Date: November 25, 2005 at 06:02:52 Pacific
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