my comp boots up pretty fast until after i log in, after i log in explorer.exe doesnt even come up for at least 30 sec, i only have the programs i need starting up(norton AV, MS antispyware, and an ati controle panel). now what else should i do? maybe disable some services like how blackviper suggests? plz tell me what ur tricks are

well the service thing will free up ram but if you have over 256mb i of ram i dont feel its worth the effort

try defraging your hard drive(s)

i have 768 ram

and my hdd is partitioned with a 15 gig part with my OS on it, that part is totally defragged but would the other part matter?

well if apps start off of it yes

do a check for spyware, viruses, ect...

you could try updating drivers if you realy wana be faster but it may not be much faster

the 2nd part is just storage, i did all of my security checkups yesterday and my drivers are all up to date

do you install and uninstall programs often? if so try flushing prefetch cache.

you could also try bootvis

Edited July 30, 200521 yr by dman

ive done bootvis

and for the prefetch, i dont even have a folder for it

Edited July 30, 200521 yr by ripken204

any1 else? its rly bugging me, ive gotten rid of a few services but all it did was free up ram like said b4

what hardware do you have? i have a piece of junk HP Pav at work and i hate it. i think it's a 2.4 mHz with RAM that i added (1G now i think) and it boots slower than my highly tweaked P3 box did that i built long ago.

now, on to another theory...

i built a new box a few months ago. i usually configure BIOS to set up the hardware via the "is OS plug and play aware = NO" option. the other day i had occasion to get into BIOS and i changed that setting to "YES". wow! after log-on the OS (XP Pro) took forever to finish loading and CPU usage was, and remained (even after loading) pegged at 100%. i haven't bothered to troubleshoot that yet, i just changed BIOS again, but maybe this is your problem as well???

its not the comp, it is an hp pav ze4125 laptop, almost 3 yrs old

it has loaded vry fast before but now i have no clue why its going so slow

don't know you really want do disable prefetch completely. Try it set to prefetch boot files only.

how? and like i said i cant even find the prefetch folder

Well U can find the prefetch folder in windows folder.

Do U have quicklaunch enabled?

like i said i dont have a prefetch folder, its not there

but i just treid logging off and then back on, fast user switching is disabled, and it loaded up in ~3sec, so maybe everything is good but it just does a total startup rly slow for some reason

Edited July 30, 200521 yr by ripken204

I've read stories that norton av can slow down your booting. Maybe you can try, just for the test offcourse, to disable the nav...