pc slow in startin up

colin13

hi guys first post in this section My pc is very slow at starting up takes about 3/4 min from windows xp widow to operation in safe mode it starts up a lot quicker,, ive de fragged it and cleaned out most of wot i think I dont need but still same any ideas ty in advance

Aliktren

checks what's running in startup (you can use a demo version of tuneup2007 for this)

Run spyware scan as well as a virus scan as they look at different things

ctrl-alt-del at the time when the PC is running slowly and see what process is using the most cpu time

BillScarab

click start, run and tyope in msconfig.exe

That will show you what is running at startup and may be slowing it down. Do you have a lot of icons in the tool tray on the task bar? It also allows you to unselect them so they don't start to see if that is faster. Just be careful you don't stop anything vital.

A slightly more advanced tool is Autoruns which does a a similar thing and can be downloaded here.

Aliktren

also this is a great site http://www.tweakguides.com/

the windows xp tweakguide on this site is great

emmahip

Something you can do every couple of months is empty the Windows\Prefetch folder.

Every time you open a program it will add an entry in here which means it will open it a little bit quicker the next time, which it does but this information takes time to load....

You can remove everything from the folder.