Windows Xp Starts Slow.

[johnpol78]

I was wondering how to speed up the start-up of windows xp.

It used to be quite fast then recently it slowed down to a snails pace.

A little info:

Laptop: MSI

2.2GHz Core2Duo Intel

2G Ram

160G HD

All I have done is a defrag, and cclean then a restore.

Didn't seem to help.

My Setup menu is set to quick boot, i got rid of all the internet cookies and so on, I ran my virus scan, and spyware software....all with no effect.

It takes like 5-10min to boot up...really long time. But once it is booted up there seems to be no loss in performance. Even when running multiple programs.

Also (don't know if this is related) but my defrag crashes 98% of the time when started.Weird

Used to take about 45sec to boot up.

Is there any way to optimize the start-up?

[darthvader]

Yes there are plenty of ways to optimize the boot.

First go to the start menu

Hit run

Type in msconfig

Go to the Boot.ini tab

Click no GUI boot

Download Autoruns

Read the description of your startup items

uncheck unneeded ones

Go to start

hit run

type services.msc

disable unnecessary services (depends on what you run network vs standalone etc.)

Some ones that you can disable are the

Themes

Indexing Service

Windows Time

Error Reporting

Set Automatic updates and Background Intelligent Transfer service to manual.

I got to go to class, I'll edit this later.

Also go to our malware forums, you may also be infected. Run a scan with malwarebytes and run a hijack this log and post the logs there. The people there will help you out if you are infected. If you aren't come back here.

Edited April 14, 2009 by darthvader

[TheTerrorist_75]

Check your free space on the hard drive. Maintain at least 25% for the OS partition. Run Disk Cleanup and Defrag in Safe Mode.

[shanenin]

use msconfig to disable everything from starting up. If this helps, try turning on one thing at a time to see what item is causing the slowdown(if any)