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re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup'
Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 9:54 pm
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Posted by stevew220 (383 messages posted)


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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).


Written in response to:
Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Fester1500: Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 5:02 pm)

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-Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Fester1500: Thu, Apr 10, 2003, 5:02 pm)
-re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Blue: Thu, Apr 10, 2003, 6:07 pm)
*re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Kv: Thu, Apr 10, 2003, 7:22 pm)
*re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (stevew220: Thu, Apr 10, 2003, 9:54 pm)
*re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Fester1500: Mon, Apr 14, 2003, 12:50 pm)
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