3 1/2 minute boot up?
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3 1/2 minute boot up?
Just a little background on my problem,
a week ago i had to reformat the disk and reinstall windows Xp home. After downloading sp2 the boot time is taking anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes. Any ideas or possible conflicts that come to mind. No conflicts that show in device manager and drivers all up to date.
a week ago i had to reformat the disk and reinstall windows Xp home. After downloading sp2 the boot time is taking anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes. Any ideas or possible conflicts that come to mind. No conflicts that show in device manager and drivers all up to date.
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I have found that if I have a lot of icons on the desktop XP Pro takes several minutes to boot up but when I have just the "basics" on the desktop it boots up under 3 minutes and that's going through a self test, which takes half the time of the boot up. My laptop (XP Media), which has just the basics on the desktop and no self test is up and running under 2 minutes.
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I have found that if I have a lot of icons on the desktop XP Pro takes several minutes to boot up but when I have just the "basics" on the desktop it boots up under 3 minutes and that's going through a self test, which takes half the time of the boot up. My laptop (XP Media), which has just the basics on the desktop and no self test is up and running under 2 minutes.
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well it worked fine before it crashed the other day. Its only since reloading Service pack 2 that it does this. Bios is up to date and drivers all all new and reloaded. Uninstalled service pack 1 and 2 and it works super fast. With them reloaded it slows right down. Gonna try a defrag and see what happens, but keep coming with the ideas. The original crash was a corrupt or missing dll that wouldn't or couldn't be reloaded, hence the reformat. Another question as well how exactly do i back up files. On cd o to the other hard drive?
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well it worked fine before it crashed the other day. Its only since reloading Service pack 2 that it does this. Bios is up to date and drivers all all new and reloaded. Uninstalled service pack 1 and 2 and it works super fast. With them reloaded it slows right down. Gonna try a defrag and see what happens, but keep coming with the ideas. The original crash was a corrupt or missing dll that wouldn't or couldn't be reloaded, hence the reformat. Another question as well how exactly do i back up files. On cd o to the other hard drive?
THe only thing i would say is update all the drivers not via windows update..go the the individual sites and do it.
IT doesnt make sense..sorry i cant help u further.
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If you're gonna do a reload, try slipstreaming SP2 into your XP cd. Or, install all updates right after you've re-installed windows... before you've done anything else.
Doesn't make sense to me either. I think there's something going on unrelated to SP2.
Doesn't make sense to me either. I think there's something going on unrelated to SP2.
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Try Registry Optimizer to clean up the awful widows registry. Afterwards use Reistry Optimizer to sort through the registry to speed up booting and shutdown.
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