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Agonizingly slow boot
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Agonizingly slow boot
Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 12:55 am
Posted by tony lawrence
(12 messages posted)
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.
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re: Agonizingly slow boot
Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 1:07 am
Posted by gert ooghe
(1 messages posted)
Check your diskspace. You must have at least 300 Mb free space on the drive to run
Xp without problems...
Check also your virtual memory settings..
you can find them control panel>system>advanced>performance
Set them in a way that windows chooses the size itself...
If this doesn't work, turn of windows choosing the size, set it to 400 Mb, reboot
pc, set it back to windows choosing the size and reboot ...
Hope this does the trick...
Greetz,
Gert Ooghe
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.
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re: Agonizingly slow boot
Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 1:02 pm
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.
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re: Agonizingly slow boot
Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 1:38 pm
Posted by Dr.Badami
(54 messages posted)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=35698&area=top&ordinal=20
Go to the above url.
download this small utility from Microsoft and first run a trace run and then choose
optimise.It will cut your bootup time to less than 10 secs.
On Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 1:02 pm, Frankie wrote:
>
>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.
>
>
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