ripken204 Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 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
spazmire11 Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 well the service thing will free up ram but if you have over 256mb i of ram i dont feel its worth the efforttry defraging your hard drive(s)
ripken204 Posted July 30, 2005 Author Posted July 30, 2005 i have 768 ramand 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?
spazmire11 Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 well if apps start off of it yesdo a check for spyware, viruses, ect...you could try updating drivers if you realy wana be faster but it may not be much faster
ripken204 Posted July 30, 2005 Author Posted July 30, 2005 the 2nd part is just storage, i did all of my security checkups yesterday and my drivers are all up to date
dman Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 (edited) do you install and uninstall programs often? if so try flushing prefetch cache.you could also try bootvis Edited July 30, 2005 by dman
ripken204 Posted July 30, 2005 Author Posted July 30, 2005 (edited) ive done bootvisand for the prefetch, i dont even have a folder for it Edited July 30, 2005 by ripken204
ripken204 Posted July 30, 2005 Author Posted July 30, 2005 any1 else? its rly bugging me, ive gotten rid of a few services but all it did was free up ram like said b4
atomizer Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 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???
ripken204 Posted July 30, 2005 Author Posted July 30, 2005 its not the comp, it is an hp pav ze4125 laptop, almost 3 yrs oldit has loaded vry fast before but now i have no clue why its going so slow
dman Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 don't know you really want do disable prefetch completely. Try it set to prefetch boot files only.
ripken204 Posted July 30, 2005 Author Posted July 30, 2005 how? and like i said i cant even find the prefetch folder
venim Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 Well U can find the prefetch folder in windows folder.Do U have quicklaunch enabled?
ripken204 Posted July 30, 2005 Author Posted July 30, 2005 (edited) like i said i dont have a prefetch folder, its not therebut 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, 2005 by ripken204
TwoWarriors Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 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...
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