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re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup'
Monday, February 25, 2002 at 10:03 am
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Posted by anza00 (79 messages posted)

Goto http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/default.asp This optomise startup and shutdown.

On Monday, February 25, 2002 at 3:25 am, Richard Morrison wrote:
>I have a question about Things
>that slow down system bootup:

>Each time I boot-up my PC hangs at startup! I am running WinXP Pro on a NTFS partition.
>I have 256Mb RAM (PC133) DIMMS. When I first loaded up windows, it would start really
>quickly, but now seems to hang at startup, for about 5mins! I have plenty of disk
>space free for swapfile too ..!! I recently loaded Zone Alarm onto my PC, but have
>disabled "Load at Startup" It says it is XP ready and does not use a lot of the system
>resources at start-up! How do I improve my boot-up, so it loads faster?
>Please advise! ...
>
>Thanks :o)
>

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Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Richie: Monday, February 25, 2002 at 3:25 am)

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