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What Affects Windows Startup Time?
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Name: orangutang
Date: August 16, 2005 at 20:37:44 Pacific
Subject: What Affects Windows Startup Time?OS: Windows XP SP2CPU/Ram: 1024 MB/3.4 GHZ |
Comment: Can someone tell me everything that affects how long it takes for Windows to startup? I already know about all the "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"s, the startup folder, and win.ini. I was wondering if there is any others, such as drivers, dlls, and other programs.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Ed in Texas.
Date: August 17, 2005 at 00:33:42 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)orangutang, we tend to have a lot of extras in our startup and sometimes that can take a lot of time and make things seem slow. There're certain thing that MUST be in the start menu and a LOT of wannabes. Find a list of MUSTS @:
http://www2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Uncheck.
HTH.
Ed in Texas.
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Name: camouflage
Date: August 17, 2005 at 02:52:25 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Run "MSCONFIG" is see what's running on your PC as it boots. Also defraging the disk speeds up booting, as it puts all the system files close together on the disk meaning faster access. Finally get your RAM up to 1Gb, everything is loaded into RAM meaning less disk access during boot thus faster boot time.
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