Hello, my computer is IBM netvista PIII800 with 128 ram.the computer usually logon and shutdown very slowly. How can i turn the computer? thanks

How long is it taking?

15 or 30 seconds

The following suggestions came from www.tweakxp.com, quite a useful site. I haven't tried them all, but the ones I used didn't seem to cause any problems, and actually WORKED. So try if it helps: Improve Slow Startup (looking for non-existent devices) This example assumes you have 1 Hard drive on your primary IDE channel and a DVD-ROM(or CD) and CD-R on your two secondary IDE channels. Go to start > right click on my computer > click properties. Click Hardware > Device Manager. Go to IDE/ATAPI Controllers. Select primary channel. Right click properties. Click the Advance settings tab. Then on the device (0 or 1)that does not have 'device type' greyed out select 'disable' instead of 'autodetect'. This should stop windows trying to find a drive that isn't there. If you have your IDE channels set up differently simply repat the above for the secondary IDE channel settings. Turn off Services Services are programs that run when the computer starts up and continue to run as they aid the operating system in functionality. There are many services that load and are not needed which take up memory space and CPU time. Disabling these services will free up system resources which will speed up your overall computer experience. I recommend that you sort through the list and read the descriptions to decide if you need that service depending on what you want to do with your computer. Remember, you can always turn the service back on if you find that you need it in the future. Below is the procedure to turn off a service.  Click the start button.  Select run from the bottom of the right column.  Then type services.msc in the box and click ok.  Once the services window has loaded we are ready to turn off unneeded services.  For instructional purposes we are going to turn off the Portable Media Serial Number service.  Find this service in the list and select it with the mouse.  Right click and select Properties.  Once the properties windows has loaded locate the Start up type drop down box and select disable.  Then just click ok and the next time the computer starts the service will not be loaded. Disable unnecessary programs Installing many programs on you computer can often clutter your registry with unnecessary programs running when your computer starts up. This will slow down your machine and take up memory.  Start Regedit. If you are unfamiliar with regedit please refer to our FAQ on how to get started.  Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run  Once there, locate any entry's on the right. You can identify the program by the path to the executable. Find programs that you can live without starting up from the list.  Right click on them and select Delete  You may also want to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.  Delete unnecessary programs.  Reboot your computer. Alternative method:  Click on the start button and select run.  In the text box type msconfig and click ok.  Once the window has loaded, click on the startup tab and uncheck programs you do not want to start up anymore. DMA mode Just like Windows 2000, Windows XP still fails to set the DMA mode correctly for the IDE device designated as the slaves on the primary IDE and secondary IDE channels. Most CD-ROMS are capable of supporting DMA mode, but the default in XP is still PIO. Setting it to DMA won't make your CD-ROM faster, but it will consume less CPU cycles. Here's how:  Open the Device Manager. One way to do that is to right click on "My Computer", select the Hardware tab, and Select Device Manager.  Expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and double-click on "Primary IDE Channel"  Under the "Advanced Settings" tab, check the "Device 1" setting. More than likely, your current transfer mode is set to PIO.  Set it to "DMA if available".  Repeat the step for the "Secondary IDE Channel" if you have devices attached to it. Reboot. Improve Your CPU's Performance Secondlevel Datacache(L2Cache) is very important for the performance of CPU. Normally winXP should recognize your CPU and the value of the L2Cache. However, sometimes XP can't do this. So you must tweak it by yourself to improve the performance:  run "regedit";  goto "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\SecondLevelDataCache";  modify its value by decimalism:  AMD Duron: 64(kb);  CeleronA/celeron2:128;  PII mobile/PIII E(EB)/P4/AMD K6-3/AMD THUNDERBird/Cyrix III:256;  AMD K6-2/PII/PIII katmai/AMD Athlon:512;  PII Xeon/PIII Xeon:1024;  reboot. Enable or disable boot defrag A great new feature in Microsoft Windows XP is the ability to do a boot defragment. This places all boot files next to each other on the disk to allow for faster booting. By default this option in enables but on some builds it is not so below is how to turn it on.  Start Regedit. If you are unfamiliar with regedit please refer to our FAQ on how to get started.  Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction  Select Enable from the list on the right.  Right on it and select Modify.  Change the value to Y to enable and N to disable.  Reboot your computer. Accelerate Your WinXP by Speeding Diskcache Diskcache plays a very important role in WinXP. However, the default I/O pagefile setting of XP is conservative, which limits the performance. Some better values for different RAM are given below.  run "regedit";  goto [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\IoPageLockLimit];  modify the value in Hex depending on the size of your RAM: RAM: modified value(Hex) 64M: 1000; 128M: 4000; 256M: 10000; 512M or more: 40000.  reboot. Though some good tools (such as "Cacheman") can do this, it is an interesting experience for you to work it out by yourself and let your XP fly. Optimizing Services Here is another way to figure out which services to set as Automatic and which to set as manual or disabled. Step1: - set ALL your services to *manual* setting step2: - reboot computer and wait for windows XP to load. XP will boot pretty slowly, since it has to turn on each service seperately. Use your computer for a bit, doing what you normally do during a computing session. This will allow any other services to activate (such as DHCP or other services that didn't load during the boot process). step3: - go back to the list of services, and see which ones are Started. - Change the services that are marked as Started, to *Automatic* - This way windows will automatically load all of the services that you normally use, and the ones that you don't use will stay unloaded. This isn't really a "gamer's tweak" because some "unecessary" services might still load. But I think this is a good optimization for a normal user. Note: If you set windows audio service to manual you will not have any sound! Turbo Shutdown For years there have been advises about fast shutdown procedures involving desktop shortcuts. No one seems to realize that in XP and ME with APM properly enabled only one press on the power button suffices to shutdown Windows in the same fashion as going through the Start > Shutdown procedure. Improve NTFS Performance The NTFS file system is the recommended file system because of its advantages in terms of reliability and security and because it is required for large drive sizes. However, these advantages come with some overhead. You can modify some functionality to improve NTFS performance as follows: 1. Disable creation of short names. By default, NTFS generates the style of file name that consists of eight characters, followed by a period and a three-character extension for compatibility with MS-DOS and Microsoft® Windows® 3.x clients. If you are not supporting these types of clients, you can turn off this setting by changing the default value of the NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation registry entry (in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Filesystem) to 1. 2. Disable last access update. By default NTFS updates the date and time stamp of the last access on directories whenever it traverses the directory. For a large NTFS volume, this update process can slow performance. To disable automatic updating, change the value of the NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate registry entry (in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentContolSet\Control\Filesystem) to 1. If the entry is not already present in the registry, add it before setting the value. (Add it as a REG_DWORD) 3. Reserve appropriate space for the master file table. Add the NtfsMftZoneReservation entry to the registry as a REG_DWORD in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem. When you add this entry to the registry, the system reserves space on the volume for the master file table. Reserving space in this manner allows the master file table to grow optimally. If your NTFS volumes generally contain relatively few files that are typically large, set value of this registry entry to 1 (the default). Typically you can use a value of 2 or 3 for moderate numbers of files, and 4 (the maximum) if your volumes tend to contain a relatively large number of files. However, be sure to test any settings greater than 2 because these higher values cause the system to reserve a much larger portion of the disk for the master file table. Convert FAT32 To NTFS To change from FAT 32 to NTFS for more stability and security, open the command prompt and type: "Convert C: /FS:NTFS". Make sure there is a space between the C: and the foward slash (/). Once you press enter it will ask you for confirmation and press Y. Then press Y and enter once more to reboot. It will take between one hour and 15 minutes to convert to NTFS. Now you can set passwords for files and use encryption. This also works for windows XP Home. Virtual Paging File This tweak can increase the amount of RAM significantly used on your computer. What this tweak actually does is it uses your hard-drive disk-space to emulate RAM. This is called caching, or in Microsoft terms - The Virtual Paging File Size.  Go into Control Panel and into Performance and Maintenance  Get into System  Click the Advanced Tab  In the Performance Frame, click on Settings  Once in Settings click on the Advanced Tab  Now under Virutal Memory click on Change  Here you can set your RAM value. The recommended increase you should make should be achieved by multiplying your RAM by 1.5. This is already done if you have a System Managed file size. I like to increase it by 1/5 of my actual hard-drive space. This will drastically increase performance, because the system will now have a pool of cache to retrieve memory from. System Configuration Utility  To Get to the System Configuration Utility  Click Start  Click Help and Support  Click Tools  On the left Select System Configuration Utlity Turn off Indexing to speed up XP Windows XP keeps a record of all files on the hard disk so when you do a search on the hard drive it is faster. There is a downside to this and because the computer has to index all files, it will slow down normal file commands like open, close, etc. If you do not do a whole lot of searches on your hard drive then I suggest turnning this feature off:  Open my computer  Right click your hard drive icon and select properties.  At the bottom of the window you'll see "Allow indexing service to index this disk for faster searches," uncheck this and click ok.  A new window will pop up and select apply to all folders and subfolders. It will take a minute or two for the changes to take affect but then you should enjoy slightly faster performance. Increase speed by tweaking prefetcher settings This is an unique technique for XP, which could improve the performance significantly by tweaking the prefetcher. Recommended hardware: PIII 800 or higher, 512M RAM or more.  run "regedit";  goto [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher];  Set the value to either 0-Disable, 1-App launch prefetch, 2-Boot Prefetch, 3-Both ("3" is recommended).  reboot. It will decrease the boot time but double and increase the performance of your XP. Try it Clean your prefetch to improve performance. This is an unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to wash registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodly. Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch directory can get full of junk and obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down your computer notablely. My suggestion is: open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete files,reboot. It is recommended that you do this every month. Unload .dll's to Free Memory Windows Explorer caches DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries) in memory for a period of time after the application using them has been closed. This can be an inefficient use of memory.  Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer].  Create a new DWORD sub-key named 'AlwaysUnloadDLL' and set the default value to equal '1' to disable Windows caching the DLL in memory.  Restart Windows for the change to take effect. I tried this after running a intense program, then watched the task manager; memory recovered it self. Another way to get rid of Messenger without uninstalling and reg hacks I just figured out how to remove M$ Messenger and keep it from loading on startup and on launch of Outlook AND this does not slow down Outlook or hinder system performance. The policy editor and registry tweaks ain't got nothin' on this! Just go into "C:\Program Files\Messenger" and either rename the Messenger folder to something like "MessengerOLD" or just move it. Viola! Even if you enable MSMSGS in Msconfig IT WILL NOT LOAD! So easy even a stoned lab rat can understand. Or just uncheck ‘autoload on startup’ in Outlook tools. Reduce 10 second scandisk wait time Start MS Dos Prompt (Start run CMD) CHKNTFS/T:4 where 4 is the amount of waity time CHKNTFS/? for more info Fix for slow loading of Outlook Express when Messenger is disabled Open up Register Editor by running "regedit" command. Click on "Edit" and select "Find". Copy and paste FB7199AB-79BF-11D2-8D94-0000F875C541 onto the "Find what" box and click on "Find Next". Once found, click on the plus sign in front of it and you will find InProc32 and LocalServer32. Select one of them then right click on default under the name column and select "modify", then simply delete what's in the Value Data box. Repeat for the other. UDMA mode enable To enable UDMA mode open up regedit by clicking on the start menu and select run. Then type regedit and click ok. Once regedit is open, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000 Create new DWORD key called "EnableUDMA66" and set its value equal to 1 undo shared IRQ's Check your IRQ's in the Device Manager (System Properties, Hardware, Device Manager, View Resources by connection). You will probably find that IRQ X is being shared by tons of devices. All the sharing can cause system slowdown because everything is competing to use that IRQ. It also causes soundcards to pop, videocards to stutter, etc. Windows XP doesnt let you change these setting no matter what, even going through the bios cant change the IRQ's. Changing the IRQ's is fairly simple though. Please Read with Care. Warning! Doing this procedure will cause the power management to stop functioning, i.e. Standby and Hibernation. Also most drivers will need to be reinstalled. In my computer only the video card needed to be manually reinstalled. Please make a Restore Point if you wish to go back to orginal setting. 1. Go to System Properties 2. Go to Device Manager 3. Click the Computer + sign. 4. Find the ACPI Power feature. 5. Go into its properties. 6. Change its drivers to Standard PC. 7. Reboot 8. Drivers will reinstall, possible manual installation required. 9. Now devices should be more equally distributed throughout the system. 10. If IRQ's are still being shared, bios changes can now affect the IRQs. Interface tweaks: Normally, the Windows Image and Fax Viewer will steal associations from other image viewers, such as AcdSee, so that when you double-click a jpeg (for example) it is opened with WIFV. To prevent this irritating behavior, delete the subkey inside HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers which I believe was named Preview (before I deleted it, that is). Or just uncheck the 'always use this program with this file'-box in associations menu ding. Remove user name from Start Menu START > RUN > GPEDIT.MSC > USER CONFIGURATION > ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES > START MENU AND TASKBAR > FIND REMOVE USER NAME FROM START MENU > RIGHT CLICK PROPERTIES > CHECK ENABLED > OK remove short-cut arrow from icons 1. Start regedit. 2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile 3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value branding Basically, you are "branding" Windows XP (Home or Pro), great for if you are a computer builder and sell them, or you just want to make Windows XP your own. It involves Regedit. 1. Start up Notepad and creat a new registry file (*.reg) and copy and paste the following into it: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}] @="YOUR TITLE HERE" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon] @="YOUR ICON HERE" 00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,68,00,70,00,6c,00,69,00,\ 6e,00,6b,00,2e,00,69,00,63,00,6f,00,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\InProcServer32] @=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\ 00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\ 64,00,6f,00,63,00,76,00,77,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00 "ThreadingModel"="Apartment" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance] "CLSID"="{3f454f0e-42ae-4d7c-8ea3-328250d6e272}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance\InitPropertyBag] "CLSID"="{13709620-C279-11CE-A49E-444553540000}" "method"="ShellExecute" "Command"="YOUR TITLE HERE" "Param1"="YOUR FUNCTION HERE" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}] @="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\MayChangeDefaultMenu] @="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\ShellFolder] "Attributes"=dword:00000000 2. Edit where it says YOUR ICON HERE to a path to an icon (ex. c:\icon.ico), it must be 24x24 pixels and in *.ico format. 3. Edit both places where it says YOUR TITLE HERE to what you want it to say in the Start Menu (ex. Elranzer Homepage). 4. Edit where it says YOUR FUNCTION here to what you want it to do when you click it, it can be anything... your website, a local HTML document, a program, a Windows funtion, whatever your imagination can provide (ex. http://www.elranzer.com). 5. Save this file as brand.reg, double-click it to enterin your information, and refresh Explorer (log off/on) to see it in the Start Menu!! This works in both Home and Professional (and probably 64-Bit Professional) Editions! Fix file listing problem with dvds on XP I had a problem with not being able to list files from my cds on my new laptops dvd drive (with winxp home). I could play files from the cds but not browse files on the cd. After intstalling ASPI drivers it all worked fine. Hope it helps someone else. MP3 ripping on XP Windows media player on XP can encode mp3 without any extra cost. Here is how: Install a mp3 codec. For example get one at: http://www.riphelp.com/downloads/radium_codec.html Make the following registry change: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Settings\MP3Encoding "LowRate"=dword:0000dac0 "MediumRate"=dword:0001f400 "MediumHighRate"=dword:0003e800 "HighRate"=dword:0004e200 Reboot and changes will be evident in media player options

Dude 15-30 seconds is nothing.Don't worry about it. Jimi_l

Right on, 15-30 seconds on your machine is almost impossibly FAST!

thank you..........