re: Agonizingly slow boot Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 1:02 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Frankie (10 messages posted) Go into C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch empty that folder from time to time that will help speed up the slow boot after the first re-boot. It may not solve all your problems but it should help. On Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 12:55 am, tony lawrence wrote: >After several months of good behaviour my computer now takes ages to boot and hangs >for a long time at the Welcome screen. I have tried Scandisk, De-fragging, Norton >Disk Doctor and cut out most programs from start-up (even though they were no problem >before) but there is no improvement. The problem only started after we had a severe >electrical storm but the computer was switched off at the time. >Grateful for any suggestions. Written in response to: Agonizingly slow boot (tony lawrence: Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 12:55 am) Responses to this message: re: Agonizingly slow boot (Dr.Badami: Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 1:38 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Agonizingly slow boot (tony lawrence: Sun, May 19, 2002, 12:55 am) re: Agonizingly slow boot (gert ooghe: Sun, May 19, 2002, 1:07 am) re: Agonizingly slow boot (Frankie: Sun, May 19, 2002, 1:02 pm) re: Agonizingly slow boot (Dr.Badami: Sun, May 19, 2002, 1:38 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum