re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup'
Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 8:23 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave
(1 messages posted)
spyware can cause this too, I use Spybot Search and Destroy (free download) weekly
on my machine and my customer's machines to clean out most of this crap. They are
loading and running in the background thus sucking up resources. I had a customer
with the same problem on his notebook, Spybot S & D cleaned out 450+ little bots
he had picked up while playing on Kaza. BTW Kaza and the new Napsters of the world
are wonderful places to get these bots and they have the potential to be very dangerous
from a security standpoint.
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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