Hello.
I may yet go that route, but would prefer just to make the current setup
work better. Thanks, though!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Marang" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] optimising/speeding up an older computer
system, especially at bootup
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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