>From Annoyances.org: Things that slow down system bootup
Intended For Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows Me Windows 98 Windows 95 You don't have enough free RAM - you should have a minimum of 32 megabytes for Windows 95 and Windows 98, 64 MB for Windows Me, and 128 MB for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Your hard disk is too slow - try optimizing it using Defrag. If you have some money burning a hole in your pocket, you might want to invest in a new, fast, huge hard disk. You don't have enough free disk space for a swapfile - you should have a minimum of 3 megabytes of free disk space for each megabyte of system RAM. You have 850 fonts installed. If you can survive without all those fonts, try removing 600-700 of them to see if that makes a difference. Your network drivers (LAN, Dial-up Networking) take too long to load - try disabling them to see if it makes a difference. Too many programs are being loaded at startup - check your Startup folder and eliminate any unneeded shortcuts. Some additional thoughts are found here: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html Hope this helps. In any subsequent emails please provide more information regarding your hardware, software, duration of problem, when the problem seemed to occur, etc. Regards Vince Vincent Winterling Vineland, NJ -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jimmy Hughes Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Startup time XPHome >From the time I press the start button on the computer case it takes 5 1/2 minutes for the "Windows is starting up" screen to appear. Suggestions on how to shorten this time? -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
