thurstongarden;371390 Wrote: > OK, although I seem to have hijacked my own thread about start-up times > rather than creating a partition, it's all massively helpful. > > So - no malware, clean antivirus scan, no cache/temp etc, down to 14 > startup items and 42 processes running. Startup time is reduced to, > wait for it.... 10 mins (including waiting 2 mins for SC). > > I think a full re-install (which will sort out my cr4p startup time) > and create a partition (so the FLAC files will go on a clean partition > and not be fragmented, ever) is in order. > > Any tips for doing this?
Maybe one last thing to check would be your memory. There are lots of utilities available for download to do the job. Check here for some of them. www.majorgeeks.com. Check to see if it's recognizing all of your RAM and how well it tests. Also, have you started it in Safe Mode? Does it take just as long? If it does can you see where during the load it stops or lags? If you do to a re-install first you'd need to back up everything. It may not be wise to reinstall anything from a backup except your data. If you have any type of software issue then you would just be re-loading it right along with everything else. Probably too long for a post, but make sure you have your OS disc, drivers disc and and programs you will be reloading. Don't neglect the drivers. Finding them after the fact can be daunting and in some cases impossible. You can get them off of your back up as long as you can find them. I'm sure there's a way to create a list of what your computer is using and maybe someone will chime in on that. Next, you'll use your OS disc to re-format the drive and load your OS back. If you aren't sure how to do that you can get some help outside of posting on the thread. I'm sure many here would be glad to help. Howard -- Howard Passman .....and still waiting for extra cradles.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56381 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
