re: Speeding up start-up
Friday, June 6, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3527 messages posted)
|For a long time my windows 98 has been slow to start up - even after a recovery.
| Jonathan
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I, for one, don't understand what you mean by "recovery".
It also sounds like you do this *often*. I REALLY don't understand that.
|Understandably, FSecure has not helped this.
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If there are no apps ("apps" which are really infections)
wasting time loading at Startup, this makes sense.
|However, after solving some problems with drivers,
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The less time Windoze wastes looking for broken/non-existant stuff,
the faster it can give you a stable Desktop.
A Registry Cleaner can help greatly here.
Selecting software that cleans up after itself properly (especially its Uninstaller)
is advised as well, as that makes for less need for a Registry Cleaner.
(The Windows Registry was the single stupidest idea to come out of Redmond.)
|on start-up[,] windows 98 automatically decided to to speed up start-up.
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I think this goes directly to your *correcting driver problems* effort.
|Although, the HD was not defragmented[,]
|the coloured bars (like a bar graph) that accompany the defrager
|where displayed whilst this was taking place
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If you want to automatically see the progress as DEFRAG does its thing,
make a Shortcut and edit the command it executes.
http://www.google.com/search?q=defrag+show.details+command.line+/DETAILED
|- and start-up is now significantly faster.
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See "*correcting driver problems* effort" (above).
|The question is, as this was an automatic process,
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I'm not clear on what you mean exactly.
|does anyone know how to manually initiate this?
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If you mean what I think you mean, then while you were fast asleep
you were visited by the DEFRAG Fairies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elves_and_the_Shoemaker
I can't imagine disk access getting magically faster on its own.
If you were running with a *tiny* amount of RAM
and constantly paging-out stuff to disk, a DEFRAG could speed *that* up.
As you haven't told us what you HAVE done already
(indeed, in some cases you don't appear to *know* specifically)
all we can do is give you the stock answers.
Pappy (J.R.) put a lot of Windoze Speed-up stuff on this page:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1122897978
Specifically about Startup, see MSCONFIG on that page.
- Written in response to:
- Speeding up start-up (Jonathan: Friday, June 6, 2008 at 5:12 am)
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