One good way to return the snappiness to Windows is to format the hard
disk and install everything fresh! I know that sounds like a lot of
work, but probably not as time consuming as attempting to tweak a slow
system.
*Don Marang*
Vinux Software Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org
<http://www.vinuxproject.org/>
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any
real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I
am working on things that matter.
-- Dean Kamen
On 5/12/2011 7:40 PM, JM Casey wrote:
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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