One suggestion for this would be to defragment your HD unit with Windows XP's Disk Defragmenter or any other disk defragementer that you may be using and another is if your system has a floppy drive go into the BIOS and disable the Floppy Drive Seek at boot.
It would also help to disable some of those resident in-house system monitors that reside in your system tray that you think you may no longer need like Quicktime or WinZip or any other useless non-utility or disk usage and memory resource monitor like Noton's SystemDoctor item for they can slow down the start up process in Windows XP. You should also clean out your disk cache and temp web page cache folders in Windows XP under Internet Explorer, Netscape or FireFox. These temporary files take up uneeded space and can slow your system down a bit but not significantly. And oh yes by all means you may want to get rid of the anti-spyware monitors and filters some are resource hogs which just sit around waiting for spam and spyware and IMHO no matter how legit may they be some of the anti-spyware programs are just spyware maquerading as anti-spyware. Marc Sims Data Technician I Prince George's Community College >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, November 09, 2005 >>> 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? thanks Jimmy A. Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~homeinspector/ -l -- ---------------------------------------- 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
