Hello everyone.
Recently I've noticed that my Acer machine, an old workhorse from 2007
running Windows XP and Jaws 11.0, , takes a really long time to boot up. I
can expect to wait about three minutes for this process to happen, and that
seems quite unnecessary. I'd like to keep this thing going for as long as
possible, and I've managed to eliminate a number of unnecessary processes,
services, etc, and recently with the help of CCleaner removed a bunch of
junk from my system which seems to have resulted in an appreciable increase
in speed. The bootup process still seems to take an age, though, and it's a
little frustrating to me that I can't see what's going on at bootup to
determine what might be making it so sluggish. My work machine is also
running XP, isn't much newer than this system, has a bunch of network
drive/connections to establish and yet still boots in thirty seconds or
less. I know there's a "step by step" bootup option you can enable so that
you can see each step in the boot process as it happens and select whether
you want to run this or that process, but that doesn't do me a lot of good
as Jaws is always one of the last things to run. So, is there any way of
making a bootlog that has the same information which I can read in a
textfile? How about any tweaks or suggestions users here might have? I've
found a number of useful sites, including process libraries that explain the
function of various system and non-essential processes that might load at
startup, but I'm wondering if anybody here might have any useful info to
pass along. In addition to increasing bootup speed, I'm also keen on ways I
might be able to decrease the general load on my CPU to make the system run
a little more smoothly. I am certainly aware of the need to do
defragmentations on the hard drive, but maybe the one that comes with
Windows isn't the best solution out there? I've heard this from other folks,
but I have no idea what programme i ought to use for this as I've always
used the native Windows defrag. How about msconfig? I know many people don't
use it, preferring a third party alternative...what of folks on the list
here?
Thanks!
JM
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