re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 1:13 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Harleyman (1 messages posted) 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) > I´ve noticed that if I have a CD in one of my drives the bootup time gets doubled....!!?? Try booting with CD-rom empty. Written in response to: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Richie: Monday, February 25, 2002 at 3:25 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Richie: Mon, Feb 25, 2002, 3:25 am) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (anza00: Mon, Feb 25, 2002, 10:03 am) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Mark: Mon, Feb 25, 2002, 12:09 pm) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Simon (UK): Wed, Feb 27, 2002, 12:52 pm) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Harleyman: Wed, Mar 20, 2002, 1:13 am) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (PJ CLARK: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 1:06 pm) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (ht: Fri, Oct 3, 2003, 4:38 pm) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Dave: Wed, Feb 11, 2004, 8:23 am) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (wrenched: Sat, May 15, 2004, 8:55 pm) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (shaggy haired kid: Thu, Jan 27, 2005, 12:39 pm) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (WinGru: Fri, Feb 11, 2005, 12:42 pm) re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (lissa: Thu, Feb 24, 2005, 6:30 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum