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re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup'
Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 6:07 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Blue
(287 messages posted)
Go to blackviper.com
There are programs in your Administration Tools/Services
that dont need to be running in the background.
If you dont need the music go
to your Sounds and Audio Devices and turn them off.
On Boot Viz, did you go to
the Tracer Tab and click on it then go to Optimize System?
Another good site to
tweak you system is - tweakxp.com
At last you're squeaking by with that 850/192
setup.
What about your video Card?
How many mbs is it?
On Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 5:02 pm, Adam Ant wrote:
>I have a question about Things
>that slow down system bootup: Whenever I restart my computer, it plays the
>little intro music and stops! All I have on the screen is my cursor and Windows
will
>not load within a two minute period unless I hit Enter. I ran msconfig and unchecked
>every unwanted box, but this did nothing but cause a message to pop up saying I
am
>running the computer at the wrong settings. Windows works fine except for the startup
>time. After a few trys I returned to this website and downloaded Visboot from Microsoft.com.
>After restarting and running the program, I noticed no difference. I am running
a
>850mHz Athlon, with 192 RAM on Windows XP. I have the same specs on a different
computer
>and that one runs fine. I was wondering if their is a way to remove the items from
>the startup option when running mscofig? I tried putting the default startup settings
>on msconfig and that checked all the boxes on the starup. I dont know if this matters
>but I have this computer networked with one other and I have DSL internet (which
>doesnt start until I go to browse the web).
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